12 Jun
1997
12 Jun
'97
9:07 a.m.
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Mr. Self Destruct wrote:
Cool! I want one of these.
Sam
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Computer Historian, Programmer, Musician, Philosopher, Athlete, Writer, Jackass
What is an MSX
machine?
From what I gather, it was an early attempt
('84-'85) at computer
"standardization" by a number of large
companies (Sony, Yamaha, Panasonic,
Sanyo, Hitachi, Goldstar, and a bunch of others. The systems were all (?)
Z80 based with a TI graphics chip and generally had 48-64k of memory.
MSX stands for Microsoft Extended (oh no!) and the OS, called MSX-DOS was
format compatible with MS-DOS and apparently had smoe CP/M functionality.
MSX failed miserably, mostly because for the time period, the technology
was old. (Amiga's, Macs, and ST's on the way)