Dear MSX users,
I'm a freelance journalist (an economist, not computer expert) putting
together an article for Britain's "Financial Times" on the history of
Microsoft and I'd appreciate your opinions on MSX. Looking through Marat
Fayzullin's FAQ gave me this mailing list; if anyone has a few minutes to
share their expertise, I'd be very grateful - please don't post to the
mailing list (I'm not subscribed), but reply to me at
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At the heart of the article is the question - why did Microsoft end up
owning the important parts of the PC standard? Why wasn't it Apple, for
example? I had thought that MSX was another competitor to MS-DOS based IBM
PCs, but your FAQs tell me that Microsoft was behind MSX as well as MS-DOS.
So why did MSX die? What was wrong with it? Did Microsoft back it or abandon
it?
If these questions seem naive, my apologies. I hope that some of you will be
willing to offer your opinions - if you are able to recommend sources, books
or websites in support of your ideas, this is all to the good for the
purposes of writing an accurate piece of work.
Many thanks in advance,
Yours, Tim Harford
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