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The computer standard Japan embraced—and America ignored
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While the West was drowning in incompatible floppy disks, Kazuhiko Nishi strong-armed Microsoft into backing a utopian standardized computer platform that practically ruled Japan. The MSX standard was an absolute juggernaut in the East, unifying hardware from Sony, Panasonic, and Yamaha under one software roof. It was a massive technological empire that the American market just blissfully, and foolishly, ignored.
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