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Japan developed plenty of its own operating systems like MSX, PC-98 and DOS/V, none of which went anywhere (outside Japan, that is).
by rippercushions 4y ago
Japan developed plenty of its own operating systems like MSX, PC-98 and DOS/V, none of which went anywhere (outside Japan, that is).
- slim 4y agoMSX was an architecture and had no operating system. it booted into Microsoft BASIC
- skissane 4y agoMSX ran the MSX-DOS operating system - which was developed by Tim Paterson under contract to Microsoft. It was a port of MS-DOS 1.x to the Z80. ASCII in Japan wrote the device drivers but the core OS was developed in Seattle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX-DOS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX-DOS