Re: incorrect C64 wikipedia page?

From: Mia Magnusson <mia_at_plea.se>
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2018 03:48:00 +0100
Message-ID: <20181110034800.0000232e@plea.se>
Den Fri, 9 Nov 2018 10:05:10 +0100 skrev Francesco Messineo
<francesco.messineo@gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
> I've been reading the C64 wikipedia entry and I believe there're some
> incorrect statements:
> 
> "The Kernal ROM went through three separate revisions, mostly designed
> to fix bugs. The initial version is only found on 326298 motherboards,
> used in the first production models, and cannot detect if an NTSC or
> PAL VIC-II is present. The second revision is found on all C64s made
> from late 1982 through 1985. The third and last Kernal ROM revision
> was introduced on the 250466 motherboard (late breadbin models with
> 41464 RAM) and is found in all C64Cs."

This page states that there were only NTSC C64's made with the Kernal
that clears color ram to white no matter what cursor color you had:
https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue50/286_1_Commodore_64_ROM_Generations.php

But that can't be true. I'm 100% sure that I were disappointed when the
Swedish C64's were changed to Swedish characters and Swedish keyboard
layout, and the color memory started to be cleared with the cursor
color.

I'm 100% sure that the C64's I've used back in the days were PAL
machines, as TV's that can handle both NTSC and PAL were super rare in
the 80's, especially in the early 80's.

Do I remember this incorrectly? 

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