CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for...
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CP/M-86 is a discontinued version of the CP/M operating system that Digital Research (DR) made for the Intel 8086 and Intel 8088. The system commands...
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MP/M (Multi-Programming Monitor Control Program) is a discontinued multi-user version of the CP/M operating system, created by Digital Research developer...
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In CP/M-86, Concurrent CP/M-86, Personal CP/M-86, S5-DOS, DOS Plus, Concurrent DOS, FlexOS, Multiuser DOS, System Manager and REAL/32 as well as by SCP1700...
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of the CP/M disk operating system. Eight-bit computers running CP/M 80 were built around an Intel 8080/8085, Zilog Z80, or compatible CPU. CP/M 86 ran...
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Box-drawing characters (section Unix, CP/M, BBS)
characters defined by default as block and line drawing characters. The CP/M Plus character set used on various Amstrad computers of the CPC, PCW and...
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86-DOS (redirect from X86 CP/M clone)
OS/8 and CP/M, which made it easy to port programs from the latter. Its application programming interface was very similar to that of CP/M. The system...
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Digital Research (redirect from The creators of CP/M)
Gary Kildall to market and develop his CP/M operating system and related 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit systems like MP/M, Concurrent DOS, FlexOS, Multiuser DOS...
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Commodore 128 (section CP/M)
Z80 CPU which allows the C128 to run CP/M, as an alternative to the usual Commodore BASIC environment. The huge CP/M software library, coupled with the...
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GEM (desktop environment) (redirect from GSX 1.0 for CP/M)
(charting, etc.) for any of the 8-bit and 16-bit platforms CP/M-80, Concurrent CP/M, CP/M-86 and MS-DOS (NEC APC-III) would run on, a task that otherwise...
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Fat binary (section CP/M and DOS)
text) This isn't a problem for CP/M-86 style executables under CP/M-86, CP/M-86 Plus, Personal CP/M-86, S5-DOS, Concurrent CP/M-86, Concurrent DOS, Concurrent...
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Digital Research's CP/M (for 8080/Z80 processors), ported to run on 8086 processors and with two notable differences compared to CP/M: an improved disk...
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Peripheral Interchange Program (redirect from PIP (CP/M command))
architectures. In the 1970s and 1980s Digital Research implemented PIP on CP/M and MP/M. It is said that during development it was named ATLATL, which is an...
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Spreadsheet (section SuperCalc for CP/M)
part of the CP/M software package included with the Osborne 1 portable computer. It quickly became the de facto standard spreadsheet for CP/M. The introduction...
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the CP/M operating system, a combination that dominated the market at the time. Four well-known examples of Z80 business computers running CP/M are the...
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COM file (redirect from CP/M COM executable)
executable format used in CP/M (including SCP and MSX-DOS) as well as DOS. It is very simple; it has no header (with the exception of CP/M 3 files), and contains...
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Digital Research's CP/M—the dominant disk operating system for 8-bit Intel 8080 and Zilog Z80 microcomputers—in order to simplify porting CP/M applications...
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conventions (CP/M-80 BDOS calls were mapped into BDOS calls for CP/M-86), so that CP/M-80 and MP/M-80 programs could be ported to the CP/M-86 and MP/M-86 platforms...
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System CP/M CP/M CP/M for Intel 8080/8085 and Zilog Z80 Personal CP/M, a refinement of CP/M CP/M Plus with BDOS 3.0 CP/M-68K CP/M for Motorola 68000 CP/M-8000...
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History of personal computers (section CP/M)
Kildall developed CP/M in 1974 as an O/S for the Intel Intellec and established his company, Digital Research, in the same year. CP/M originally stood...
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timeline of events in the history of the 8-bit 8080-based and 16-bit x86-based CP/M operating systems from 1974 to 2014, as well as the hardware and software...
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Eagle Computer (section CP/M models)
off from Audio-Visual Laboratories (AVL), it first sold a line of popular CP/M computers which were highly praised in the computer magazines of the day...
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market. WordStar was written for the early CP/M (Control Program–Micro) operating system, ported to CP/M-86, then to MS-DOS, and was the most popular...
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DR-DOS (section Origins in CP/M)
and derived from Concurrent PC DOS 6.0, which was an advanced successor of CP/M-86. Upon its introduction in 1988, it was the first DOS that attempted to...
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except the last shipped with the Locoscript word processing program, the CP/M Plus operating system, Mallard BASIC and the Logo programming language at...
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System time (redirect from DATE (CP/M command))
Brown (2000). "Int 0x1A, AH=0x04". Ralf Brown's Interrupt List. "CP/M Plus (CP/M Version 3.0) Operating System Guide" (PDF). "BDOS system calls". Ralf...
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Multiuser DOS (redirect from Concurrent CP/M 8-16)
Digital Research 8-bit operating systems CP/M and MP/M, and the 16-bit single-tasking CP/M-86 which evolved from CP/M. When Novell abandoned Multiuser DOS...
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TAB characters are displayed as \t and NEWLINE characters as \n. In the CP/M 8-bit operating system used on early personal computers, the standard DUMP...
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Apple II Plus (section CP/M)
and thus CP/M software either had to be obtained on Apple format disks or transferred via serial link from a different machine running CP/M. The SoftCard...
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poor compared to other CP/M implementations. C64 CP/M and C128 CP/M both suffer a lack of software; although most commercial CP/M software can run on these...
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