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Re: Why did Turbo Pascal implement its own heap manager?

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On 2017-02-08, Jim Leonard <MobyGamer@gmail.com> wrote:
> The only possible reason I can think of is that Borland's management only
> uses 8 bytes of overhead instead of DOS's 16 bytes per overhead (per MCB),
> so I guess the advantage was that you could use 8 less bytes per
> allocation, and also allow a minimum allocation of 8 bytes instead of
> DOS's 16 bytes.  

Or something requiring control in e.g. overlays ?

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