[Coco] Was this advertisement "true"...?

[Andrew]

Thank you all for your replies; I was hoping my understanding wasn't 
faulty. I started as a kid with a CoCo 2 w/ 16k and ECB in 1984, so 
those earlier machines were "unknown" to me (though I did later 
encounter the gray-cased machines in the 8th grade - one of my teachers 
had a couple in the classroom).

It seems weird that Commodore would claim Microsoft Basic being included 
on the VIC-20, then put a string of CBMBASIC in the ROM? It's also 
crummy that they would claim the whole "BASIC costs extra" on the CoCo - 
when that was for a ROM to make the -included- BASIC even better (to 
give it the high-resolution graphics commands, among others). Color 
BASIC was already a more "powerful" BASIC than the VIC-20's by including 
the low-res graphics commands...

Ah well, history and lies - they both seem to go hand-in-hand, 
especially when combined with marketing...

:)

-- Andrew L. Ayers, Glendale, Arizona