In one of the services I use to look at web site access statistics for my 4 web logs I saw CPM. Huh? Does the CP/M operating system still exist? Or has some joker built his Linux or FreeBSD or other OS to report itself as CPM? Or is this joker doing this in his browser's configuration?
Posted by Randall Parker at October 08, 2002 11:48 AMWhat is CPM? Somebody told me they want an operating system with CPM, I go to search the internet for CPM and I find this, it only means one thing to me. It is old stuff.
Posted by: Dipo Kamoto Mbewe on January 9, 2003 07:57 AMCPM stands for Control Program Monitor (if my ancient memory serves) and was an operating system that Digital Research sold back in the late 1970s and early 1980s chiefly for 8 bit 8080 and Z80 processors. It was available for the IBM PC but at a much higher price than PC-DOS.
Posted by: Randall Parker on January 9, 2003 09:39 AMCPM ruled before DOS, Bill Gates stole the basic concepts for DOS from CPM. This is why he is worth billions, I still have a working CPM system, I remember the ROOTS of Computers.
Posted by: Mark on April 19, 2003 11:13 PMI need to add one comment, The 8088 Mico was installed to the first IBM computer, Funny Uh? The same instruction set from and taken from the 8080 and the Z80. Funny? Strange? Guess what, Bill was not a technical guy, he is a marketing guy, look at all the different windows OS's ? Please give me a break form his BS!!!
Posted by: Mark on April 19, 2003 11:23 PMGot my first portable PC with CP/M. It was a Keypro II. Got it early 1980'ies (1982??) - the OS was good and very reliable. ;)
Posted by: Jonna Basberg on December 12, 2003 01:22 AMI am looking for hard drive for a kay pro 10. I am tring to restore my first computer. Thanks C. W. Brown
Posted by: C. W. Brown on December 17, 2003 07:32 PMCPM was used as the OS for portable computers in one of the first online communications in the Netherlands, in the late 80īs, by a company called Hendrix, which screened online the development of pigs in itīs customers farms.
Posted by: H Segura on January 13, 2004 06:52 PMMy first computer was an Amstrad CPC6128. There was a cp/m os version for that kind of computers. It was really a good os. Very complete with plenty of resource for that time. I also read in a magazime of the time that IBM was to install CPM on their firtst PC 8088 instead of DOS but people of CP/M were late the day they had to sign up the final contract so IBM though they were not enough responsible and deicided to sign it with Microsoft...
Posted by: Daniel on September 30, 2004 08:14 AMCP/M was also available for the Commodore 128. I believe it stood for Computer Program for Microprocessors.
Posted by: Isaac on December 10, 2004 10:18 AMIf I'm not mistaken, it was used in KLA/TEL wafer probers in the semiconductor industry (early to mid 90s).
Posted by: KP on May 22, 2006 10:08 AM