10 Apr
2000
10 Apr
'00
6:12 p.m.
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Sipke de Wal wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke(a)mch20.sbs.de>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 11:00 PM
Subject: MSX (Was: !Re: Nuke Redmond!)
Hans Franke wrote
The MSX's were some nice little machines. (I still have a Spectravideo
that I picked up from a flea market some years ago, although it is
non-working. If anyone wants such a beast, let's talk...)
By the time they showed up in the US, though, the 8-bit home computer
shakeout had already taken place, leaving nothing but Apple II (on the
high end) and Commodore 64 (on the low end). . .The MSX's were very
popular in other parts of the world, though.
Sipke de Wal wrote:
>
> Microsoft also was involved in the (in)famous MSX
standard and they
developed
MSX-DOS for it.
Hey, drop this right now ... MSX was quite a
great thing.
And if I had to select the single best thing MS ever did
to the customer, I'd definitly go for MSX. I think it's
not MS fault that it never realy took of in the US ...
I Agree ......
All I wanted to say is that MSX-DOS effectively is the same
as CP/M 2.x
CP/M-software even ZCPR3 would happily run under MSX-DOS
Trouble was that there was more than one MSX standard mainly
due to
Spectravideo. That's why I stated: (in)famous.