From: marcov@toad.stack.nl   
      
   On 2017-02-08, Jim Leonard  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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