Whatever Happened to CP/M? (Part 1/2)

Part one of this two-part series dives into the early days of personal computing, from the birth of the CP/M operating system in 1974 to the rise of the IBM PC in the 1980s. Follow the journey of Gary Kildall, the visionary founder of Digital Research, whose pioneering software set the stage for modern computing. Explore the critical moments and decisions that shaped the industry, including the fateful encounter with IBM that changed the course of tech history; from triumphs to missed opportunities.

00:00 Intro
00:38 CP/M: The de-facto 70's standard operating system
01:50 The origins of CP/M: 1974 at Intel
04:45 DRI & The IBM PC: A missed opportunity?
07:15 DRI's Downfall, and the end of CP/M
13:32 Next on TPC: Becoming DR DOS - Whatever happened to CP/M, Part 2

Links:

Historic Systems:

Altair 8800:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_...
Altair-Duino Replica:
https://adwaterandstir.com/altair/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMSAI_8080
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRSDOS
https://www.trs-80.com/wordpress/refe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-80_So...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellec
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I

Hardware Abstraction:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP/M#BIOS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardwar...

Emulation:
https://github.com/udo-munk/z80pack
https://www.icl1900.co.uk/unix4fun/z8...

CP/M Versions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMDOS

IBM, Intel, Microsoft, SCP backgrounds:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8088
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8086
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle...


Novell's side of the history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_Sy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPer...


Historic Backgrounds:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS
https://ethw.org/w/images/5/53/TheBir...
https://www.digibarn.com/stories/litt...
https://books.google.ch/books?id=pzwE...
http://www.digitalresearch.biz/DR/Gar...
https://jwde.jp/gary.html
https://web.archive.org/web/202001022...


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