22 Jan
2007
22 Jan
'07
8:54 a.m.
MSX machines were mainly home machines, no? I doubt
too many homies were buying 286s in 85-6. And is
MSX-dos? kinda like c/pm?
More or less. In Brazil the MSX line was launched in times of "market
reserve" - we couldn't import computers, the only avaiable computers were
made in Brazil. Of course you could buy a VERY EXPENSIVE Pc-XT-Clone or
something out of a gray market. But since it was so expensive, MSX were used
to all things you can think of: Process control, industrial machines,
databases, you name it! It could be used with ROM cartridges, so it was
fairly easy to create a program, burn a PROM, make a cart out of it and seal
the entire msx into the machine, it would work for years with very less
trouble than a PC, since it has a very low part count and was fairly
reliable.