MSX

MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s conceived by Kazuhiko Nishi, then Vice-president at Microsoft Japan and Director at ASCII Corporation. It is said that Microsoft led the project as an attempt to create unified standards among hardware makers. Despite Microsoft's involvement, the MSX-based machines were seldom seen in the United States , but they were mostly popular in Japan, the Middle East, the USSR, the... More

Introduced:

  • 1983

Processor:

Also known as:

  • Microsoft Extended,
  • Machines with Software eXchangeability

Video Game Platform

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Computers

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Canon

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Casio

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Daewoo

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Dragon Data

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Fujitsu

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GoldStar

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Gradiente

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Hitachi, Ltd.

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JVC

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Discontinued:

  • 1995

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