Warp wrote:
> *Why* would it do that, given that freeing the memory is, relatively
> speaking, trivial?

On the Amiga, it's because you might have passed that memory to something 
else, or loaded code into it to handle interrupts. But then, the Amiga was a 
single-user OS with no memory protection, so you did that sort of thing. :-)

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