TechiePundit: Does the CPM OS still exist?

2002 October 08 Tuesday

Does the CPM OS still exist?

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 AM

Comments

Dipo Kamoto Mbewe said at January 9, 2003 7:57 AM:

What 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.

Randall Parker said at January 9, 2003 9:39 AM:

CPM 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.

Mark said at April 19, 2003 11:13 PM:

CPM 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.

Mark said at April 19, 2003 11:23 PM:

I 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!!!

Jonna Basberg said at December 12, 2003 1:22 AM:

Got 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. ;)

C. W. Brown said at December 17, 2003 7:32 PM:

I am looking for hard drive for a kay pro 10. I am tring to restore my first computer. Thanks C. W. Brown

H Segura said at January 13, 2004 6:52 PM:

CPM was used as the OS for portable computers in one of the first online communications in the Netherlands, in the late 80´s, by a company called Hendrix, which screened online the development of pigs in it´s customers farms.

Daniel said at September 30, 2004 8:14 AM:

My 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...

Isaac said at December 10, 2004 10:18 AM:

CP/M was also available for the Commodore 128. I believe it stood for Computer Program for Microprocessors.

KP said at May 22, 2006 10:08 AM:

If I'm not mistaken, it was used in KLA/TEL wafer probers in the semiconductor industry (early to mid 90s).

john said at August 7, 2010 6:28 AM:

I still have it running on a computer vt180 from DEC from 1985
it is with some programs like multiplan ( old form of excel ) and words ( also very old )