[Coco] [Color Computer] pagetable.com » Blog Archive » Bill Gates’ Personal Easter Eggs in 8 Bit

[James Diffendaffer]

> John W. Linville wrote:
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>> Yes, it mentions the CoCo and the MC-10!
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>> http://www.pagetable.com/?p=43
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> Wow, that is a cool find!
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> Makes me wonder how optimized the CoCo basic actually was, or if it was
> just ported over from the existing codebase. 

The Dragon's interpreter is faster than the CoCo's. 
That alone should tell you the CoCo's Basic wasn't optimized well.
They didn't even bother to worry about what tokens were one or two
bytes.  The most commonly used commands should have used single byte
tokens but not all do.