popular in the late 1970s but was virtually wiped out by
Many of CP/M's features and conventions strongly resemble
those of early
DEC operating systems such as
TOPS-10,
CP/M might have been the
OS for the
IBM PC instead of
MS-DOS but Kildall wanted to keep control of his creation
and only license it to IBM. Big Blue however wanted to own
and control it completely. Kildall spent the day IBM's reps
wanted to meet him enjoying the perfect flying weather in his
private plane.
[Did CP/M use the same
FAT file system as MS-DOS?]
(1996-01-07)