CP/M

CP/M
Developer	Gary Kildall, Digital Research
Publisher	Digital Research
Systems	Intel 8080, 8085, 8086 Zilog Z80, Z8000, Motorola 68000
Released	1974-1983
Added to museum	Not yet

CP/M originally stood for Control Program/Monitor, but when it was released as commercial software, it was changed to stand for Control Program for Microcomputers.

History

Gary Kildall developed CP/M in 1974 as an operating system to run on an Intel Intellec-8.

Kidell formed Digital Research, Inc. to sell CP/M commercially for Intel 8080 processors.