It is said that Microsoft led the project as an attempt to create unified standards among hardware makers.ĭespite Microsoft's involvement, the MSX-based machines were seldom released in the United States, but were popular in Asian countries like Japan and South Korea, South American countries like Brazil and Chile, and in the European market in countries like the Netherlands, France, Spain and Finland. It was conceived by Kazuhiko Nishi, then Vice-president at Microsoft Japan and Director at ASCII Corporation.
MSX is the name of a standardized home computer architecture, first announced by Microsoft on June 16, 1983.
