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Both the DFS and the ADFS did indeed reserve memory for themselves at startup, increasing PAGE; this memory was used to hold the current catalogue and other bookkeeping.
For adapting existing tape software two observations are helpful:
almost nothing on the BBC was a multiload; and
you can turf the [A]DFS out of memory if you don't intend to use it again.
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