• HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    8 months ago

    They got an amazing amount of mileage out of an 8-bit design based on off-the-shelf parts late in the 8-bit era. You can build a MSX-compatible machine from parts even today.

    I suppose that’s the power of an open standard: it’s doubtful it would have flown if it was just a Sony (or Casio or Spectravision or…) design, but uniting basically every notable Japanese electronics manufacturer who didn’t have a solid platform already (like NEC) made it viabl.e

    • Diplomjodler@feddit.de
      English
      12·
      8 months ago

      That doesn’t change the fact that the computers were underpowered and technologically obsolete when they came out. Which is why they never got any traction outside of Japan.