Kazuhiko Nishi (西 和彦, Nishi Kazuhiko, born February 10, 1956 in Kobe, Japan) launched ASCII magazine. Gradually ASCII started to publish software solutions too. Later he become Bill Gates' friend and in charge of Microsoft's Far Eastern operations.
In 1986, Kazuhiko Nishi's Gate's path become separate and he left Microsoft to devote himself mostly to ASCII Corporation to develop the MSX standard together with NEC executive Kazuya Watanabe. ASCII ...
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