MSX
MSX was a standardized range of Z80 based 8 bit computers developped by Microsoft and various (mostly) japanese producers to exploit... microsoft softwares.
MSX stands for "Machines with Software eXchangeability".
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 Speccy. 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 ?")
Latter MSX standard included extra video modes without the colours clashes.
The MSX was to Japan what the CPC was to France. Or what the ZX Speccy was to England or eastern europe (Speccy clones mostly...)
