CP/M, standing originally for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 by Gary Kildall of Digital Research for Intel 8080-based microcomputers. As a disk operating system its purpose was to organize files on magnetic storage and load and run programs from disk; initially confined to single-tasking 8-bit machines with no more than 64 kilobytes of memory, later versions added multi-user variations and moved to 16-bit processors.
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SignificanceBecame the de facto standard and dominant operating system for microcomputers on S-100 bus systems. 1 Connections
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CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc.
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CP/M eventually became the de facto standard and the dominant operating system for microcomputers, in combination with the S-100 bus computers.
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CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc.
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View the SourceWikipedia: Gary Kildall
Wikimedia FoundationInvented By: Gary Kildall, Infobox: known_forQuote, Invented By: Gary Kildall, Infobox: known_for
Creator of CP/M, Pioneer of the microcomputer revolution, personal computer revolution
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