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TP6 had 255 byte strings and you couldn't implement your own WriteLn. It seemed like it was still breaking free from academic pascal.

In a world where the applications and OS had to fit under 640KB, I never had a problem with the string sizes.

I don't see why anyone would like to implement its own WriteLn.

You have the same issue with professional languages and I never saw anyone complaining about it.

Also C needs Assembly for its IO library and everyone is ok with it.