I think early Borland container libraries had a "Object" base class for everything, pre templates. All that went away as C++ compilers started supporting templa

I think early Borland container libraries had a "Object" base class for everything, pre templates. All that went away as C++ compilers started supporting templates more. I remember this era as always making tradeoffs between code size, memory consumption, standardness and performance. Not sorry those days are over...