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Revision as of 22:43, 11 February 2009
CP/M was an early OS for microcomputers. It was ported to several CPUs, the most popular ports were for the 8080 and the Z80.
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| Creator: | Gary Kildall at Digital Research, Inc. |
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| Architecture: | 8080, z80, 8086, 68000 |
| This Version: | 3.1 |
CP/M was the inspiration to MS-DOS. It assigns letters for each drive, however it doesn't use directories. CP/M was a portable operating system, that was popularized because it was cheap, and was not resource intesnsive, unlike Unix which had very restrictive licensing. CP/M was also seen as a popular choice of an OS on the S-100 type machines, although not all machines that ran CP/M had S-100 slots (The Commodore 128 would be a good example of such).
Without doubt the 'killer' application that CP/M had was visicalc. Not to mention there was a port of Zork to the CP/M z80 platform.
