MSX (Was: !Re: Nuke Redmond!)

From: Charles P. Hobbs <transit_at_lerctr.org>
Date: Mon Apr 10 18:12:20 2000

On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Sipke de Wal wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de>
> To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 11:00 PM
> Subject: MSX (Was: !Re: Nuke Redmond!)
>
>
> > Sipke de Wal wrote:
> >>
> > > Microsoft also was involved in the (in)famous MSX
> standard and they
> > > developed MSX-DOS for it.
> >
> Hans Franke wrote
> > 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.


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.
Received on Mon Apr 10 2000 - 18:12:20 BST