CP/M

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:CP/M:: /C-P-M/ /n./ [Control Program/Monitor; later retconned to Control Program for Microcomputers] An early microcomputer OS written by hacker Gary Kildall for 8080- and Z80-based machines, very popular in the late 1970s but virtually wiped out by MS-DOS after the release of the IBM PC in 1981. Legend has it that Kildalls company blew its chance to write the OS for the IBM PC because Kildall decided to spend a day IBMs reps wanted to meet with him enjoying the perfect flying weather in his private plane. Many of CP/Ms features and conventions strongly resemble those of early DEC operating systems such as [[TOPS-10]], OS/8, RSTS, and RSX-11. See [[MS-DOS]], operating system.
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