4 generations of MSX were produced, each with it's own system specs.
It was a serious concurrent to the Amstrad CPC range.
Yet a lot of similarities and differences between the 2 systems.
Despite having the colour attributes logic, it wasn't as bad as on the [[ZX Spectrum|Speccy]]. Yet as a Z80 based computer, many European Sofware developpers did those awfull scrappy speccy ports, which Japanese couldn't understand ("why do they have so scrappy graphics ?")
[http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX Wikipedia page]