] > was conceived (MSX means Machines (hardware) with Software eXchangeability).
]
] Oh no... come on again!
To wrap it up shortly: it can mean anything.
For example, another story from Nishi went as follows:
Because there is a big resemblence between having a video standard (the same
video ta
> In his speech last saturday he made several (slightly) anti-microsoft jokes,
so
> this could very well have been one of them. He did say the Matsushia Sony
> X-machine was merely a name in response to Microsoft's version of MSX.
I wrote this before I listened to the recording, and I forgot to d
Note: the recording of Nishi's speech can now be downloaded from www.msx.org
...read on...
> > > What the hell REALLY means MSX??? X-D
> >
> > I do think this is the actual name. It was the basic idea behind the MSX
> > philosophy back then. The MicroSoft eXtended applies only to the Basic and
D
> I think MSX doesn't really have a meaning. Nishi said he just
> needed a nice
> sounding 3 letter word, just like VHS, e.g.
Uhm? Nishi didn't say that. He said MSX should be like VHS, a standard which
can be adopted by many companies. The letters were not chosen just because
it sounds nice.
gr
> > What the hell REALLY means MSX??? X-D
>
> I do think this is the actual name. It was the basic idea behind the MSX
> philosophy back then. The MicroSoft eXtended applies only to the Basic and Do
s,
> and the Matsushia Sony X-machine is some kind of 'joke' from people who were
> against micros
> > was conceived (MSX means Machines (hardware) with Software eXchangeability).
>
> Oh no... come on again!
>
> What the hell REALLY means MSX??? X-D
I do think this is the actual name. It was the basic idea behind the MSX
philosophy back then. The MicroSoft eXtended applies only to the Basic an
