9 Oct
2024
9 Oct
'24
10:41 p.m.
Hmmm, MSX....
I only knew of MSX here in Australia (circa 1985/6 ish) because the
shop where I hung out, ogling Toshiba T300 PC compatibles has an MSX
machine they were trying to sell. I recall its colorful keyboard
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On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 at 09:24, Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 2024-10-09 2:30 p.m., Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
> MSX is unknown in USA!
> It was for Z80, and the disk format was MS-DOS
> . . .
> Generic PC clones got so cheap here that nobody would buy Z80 any more.
On Wed, 9 Oct 2024, ben via cctalk wrote:
I thought it was the cheap apple clones that did
it, as most CP/M was on the
S-100 bus.
MSX was later; PC was thoroughly dominant by then, and Apple was solidly
estalishing Macintosh.
MSX-DOS was created by Tim Paterson as a port to Z80 of MS-DOS
1.25. The rest, and hardware, was primarily Japanese, but later marketed
everywhere except USA.
https://www.msx.org/wiki/The_History_of_MSX-DOS
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