> Little briefing: Kay Nishi had a lecture in last MSX Den-yu Land about the
> meaning of MSX, and he said that MSX isn�t Micro$oft eXtended, as we have
> thought. Well, MSX was Nishi�s idea, so he�s the best one in the world to
> talk about this subject.
If Nishi really claimed that, I think he suffers a bit from
'greatnessmadness'.
MSX could never have been a one-man project.
And maybe he thought "let's make a new computer system standard". But at
that time he couldn't have possibly known Matsushia and Sony and even more
would participate in it. I think actually a lot of names have been made up,
and MicroSoft eXtended (Basic) was adopted by the western countries, and
Matsushia Sony X-machine (X-box???) has been adopted by the 'eastern' ones
(read: Japan).
Or another possibility: MSX only refers to MicroSoft eXtended in MSX Basic.
The name of the computer itself is Mat... well, you know the drill.
But these are all presumptions.
Why didn't Kay Nishi give a reason why so much European people believed MSX
to be an abbrevation for M$eXt??? And why have I never seen a written
document stating MatSonyX but lots of books and documents stating M$eXt???
In other words, I have my doubts... Although the last possibility (about the
Basic) seems quite probable to me.
~Grauw
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