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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Self-booting disk (redirect from SpeedStart CP/M-86)
IBM PC on bootable floppy diskettes bundled with SpeedStart CP/M, a reduced version of CP/M-86 as a bootable runtime environment. Infocom offered the only...
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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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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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Page) is a data structure used in CP/M systems for programs to communicate with the operating system. In 8-bit CP/M versions it is located in the first...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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operating system that allowed a floppy disk to be used. This was the basis of CP/M. Kildall was working at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Gary Kildall (redirect from Father of CP/M)
scientist and microcomputer entrepreneur. During the 1970s, Kildall created the CP/M operating system among other operating systems and programming tools, and...
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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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The Epson QX-10 is a microcomputer running CP/M or TPM-III (CP/M-80 compatible) which was introduced in 1983. It is based on a Zilog Z80 microprocessor...
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Self-relocation (section CP/M extensions)
themselves out of place in order to load the next stage into memory. Under CP/M, the debugger Dynamic Debugging Tool (DDT) dynamically relocated itself to...
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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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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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turn the computer into a CP/M system based upon the Zilog Z80 central processing unit (CPU). Becoming the most popular CP/M platform and Microsoft's top...
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