Because Bank 2 and Bank 3 on the c65 are ROMs ? Kernelroutines, etc...
So a FRE(2) or (3) is not logical.
No, I said "activate RAM BANK 2 & 3 in VICE x128."
It is just that I think BASIC (neither 7.0 nor 10.x) was designed to use more than 2 RAM BANKS, one for programm, one for variables.
Even GW-BASIC only initializes only 64k for BASIC in MS-DOS, that's why I think that from BASIC it's not possible to access more than BANK 0 and 1.
On the other hand we can pretend that BASIC 7.x & BASIC 10.x are superior to GW-BASIC, because our 8-bit BASICs can use twice the memory (128K)