TFH wrote:
> >Most PC says:
> >
> > "Starting Microsoft Windows"
> >
> > on the boot, but PC was designed by IBM. One thing has nothing to
> >do with another.
>
>That's because of the installed O.S. What I was talking about in the the ROM
>of ALL MSX-es...
>Anyway... You just think and say what you want. I don't know why everbody
>now wants to deny that MSX was (partitialy) made/created/designed by
>Microsoft. It's a simpe fact....
Ofcourse MSX was designed by Microsoft. Microsoft FAR EAST to be exact!
And MSX-BASIC and MSX-DOS, the part that says (c) Microsoft is ofcourse
only an OS also.
So can we all agree on the following and DROP this discussion:
- MSX hardware was created by Kay Nishi (of ASCII and also Microsoft Far
East at the time).
- MSX BIOS, operating system and BASIC were created by Microsoft.
Nishi obviously has -why would he lie-, during negotiations with all
participating companies, thought up several different meanings for the MSX
abbreviation. Which in fact was very clever business strategy. This way all
parties could feel THEY had a big part in creating MSX.
Heh, even Microsoft didn't design all of MSX OS. It's a fact that Nishi
himself created the HOOK-system we all know and love.
Finally, I'd like to qoute Anne de Raad:
>I just want to say that in Japan there is more MSX-activity then there has
>been the last 10 years...I know, maybe it's all idealistic amateur, but it
>is a FACT there is very much going on......We as Europeans should get MORE
>involved in the MSX-scene in Japan....Don't know how, but we should.....It
>is TOO interesting....really!
You couldn't be more right, Anne!
Patriek
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