Re:LokiOS. A new version of CP/M 2.2, written from Scratch
by lproven on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @05:42PM
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MSX wasn't? No, indeed not, and AFAICR MSX BASIC wasn't anything very special. (MSX-DOS actually was, and is CP/M compatible and can run CP/M programs, which is rarely even mentioned.)
But MSX was aimed squarely at gaming with a sideline in music making and things. I feel it deserves more respect, as one of the longest-surviving 8-bit architectures, one that was the most extended of all of them, and even transitioned with some degree of success to 16-bit, with the Z800-compatible R800 chip: https://www.msx.org/wiki/ASCII_DAR800-X0G
MSX Basic was a derivative of MS BASIC, which isn't really surprising since they had their hand in developing the MSX standard.