MSX was a microsoft product??(really I don't know)
Machine Standard Extentions or something like that?
I thought it was just a machine specification for a Z80 based computer with a TI graphics chip (9918??)for antimated sprite handling and 64K memory.(ancient history)
I thought several Japanese or Taiwanese corporations were trying to standardize on a common platform( were did MS come in?? I didn't think it was marketed anywhere but Asia.)....this was before the 1st IBM PC came out with its 64K base memory and color TV output.
Remember that the first macs were 128K and no hard drive... The desktop metaphor was the representation of the filesystem. The Eject command (from the menu bar ) physically ejected the floppy disk (from the single floppy drive) but the floppy remained mounted in the filesystem. This way you could have multible disks mounted in the filesystem and manipulate files between them while only having one physical drive. Trashing the floppy icon is the same as umounting the disk (deleting it from the filesystem -desktop- not erasing the disk.)
The lack of an eject button was to keep a user from snatching a disk from the computer before the disks directory was updated pior to unmounting the disk.
Some have mentioned the location of the powerswitch below the floppy drive on the pizzabox 600-pm7100 models. that was a nightmare. I diabled the switchs on the boxes at work just to keep people from switching off the computer.... the worst possiable place to put it and it had to be deliberate, at least somebody should have changed it after the 1st models came out--- I guess nobody at apple cared at that time.
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MSX was a microsoft product??(really I don't know)
Machine Standard Extentions or something like that?
I thought it was just a machine specification for a Z80 based computer with a TI graphics chip (9918??)for antimated sprite handling and 64K memory.(ancient history)
I thought several Japanese or Taiwanese corporations were trying to standardize on a common platform( were did MS come in?? I didn't think it was marketed anywhere but Asia.)....this was before the 1st IBM PC came out with its 64K base memory and color TV output.
Remember that the first macs were 128K and no hard drive... The desktop metaphor was the representation of the filesystem. The Eject command (from the menu bar ) physically ejected the floppy disk (from the single floppy drive) but the floppy remained mounted in the filesystem. This way you could have multible disks mounted in the filesystem and manipulate files between them while only having one physical drive. Trashing the floppy icon is the same as umounting the disk (deleting it from the filesystem -desktop- not erasing the disk.) The lack of an eject button was to keep a user from snatching a disk from the computer before the disks directory was updated pior to unmounting the disk. Some have mentioned the location of the powerswitch below the floppy drive on the pizzabox 600-pm7100 models. that was a nightmare. I diabled the switchs on the boxes at work just to keep people from switching off the computer.... the worst possiable place to put it and it had to be deliberate, at least somebody should have changed it after the 1st models came out--- I guess nobody at apple cared at that time.