 After the
(relative) success of the MSX 1 computer (in Japan, Europe and South
America), Microsoft and ASCII presented its successor. The main new
feature was the very enhanced graphic modes, no other computers were
able to display such graphics! The 128 KB VRAM was very impressive! It
had a battery-backed clock and a new MMU (to handle more than the Z80
64KB limit). The MSX 2 standard, like the MSX 1, was designed by
ASCII, the new operating system MSX DOS 2.0 was designed by Microsoft
(it's almost a copy of MS-DOS 3.3). A while after launching the MSX 2
standard, Microsoft abandoned the project, but several manufacturers
took it over.
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