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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 8080/85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. Initially confined to single-tasking on 8-bit processors and no more than 64 kilobytes of memory, later versions of CP/M added multi-user variations and were migrated to 16-bit processors." -- taken from Wikipedia

(link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M)

Want to learn more? Follow the link: http://www.digitalresearch.biz/CPM.HTM

Of particular note is the web site run by Gaby Chaudry: http://www.gaby.de/ecpm.htm

Another excellent resource is the Unofficial CP/M Web Site (link below) which boasts tons of software and source code that is unable to be distributed otherwise.

(link: http://www.cpm.z80.de/)

Have questions? Need help getting started? Just ask! CP/M 2.2 seems to be the most popular for those still working with / on the system. If not on legacy hardware, SIMH and Oracle's VirtualBox are good PC emulators to start with.

Interested in an open source CP/M clone? Check out the CP/Mish distribution (link below) headed by David Given.

(link: http://cowlark.com/cpmish/)

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screenshot of text:CP/M-86 Bootstrap Loader 1.8Reading Track 8 1234CP/M-86 for the IBM Personal Computer.Version 1.8Copyright 1982, Digital Research Inc.Hardware Supported:Diskette(s) : 2Printer(s) : 1Serial Port(s) : 1Memory (Kb) : 256A>U=00| 02/10/82 | 00:00:16

Note that while CP/M-86 for the IBM Personal Computer Version 1.0 says Copyright 1982 on it, CP/M-86 was already shipping for other machines prior to then, as documented by the article CP/M-86 Captures Leading Share in 16-Bit World Market in a 1981 issue of Digital Research News:

IBM recently announced its 16-bit personal computer, which will use CP/M-86 as its alternate operating system. With this long-awaited move, IBM joins Piiceon, Artelonics and Sirius Systems, which have all introduced 16-bit computers with CP/M-86 in the last six months.

Can CP/M-86 achieve the same widespread acceptance in the 16-bit world as CP/M has in the 8-bit world? More than 400 different computer manufacturers use CP/M, prompting Business Week to hail it as the de-facto standard of 8-bit operating systems. As yet, only a few computer manufacturers use CP/M-86. But behind the raw number is a more revealing statistic. "There are only a few hundred 16-bit machines on the market today," said John Katsaros, director of marketing. "We estimate that about 25 percent of the 16-bit installations use CP/M-86. That makes it the most widely used 16-bit microcomputer operating system."

Other browser-based CP/M emulation includes:

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