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CP/M was a text-based operating system created by American programmer Gary Kildall of Digital Research in 1974. Its initials stood for "Control Program/Monitor" at first, but Digital Research changed it to the more friendly "Control Program for Microcomputers" later.
For example, the primary control program in a computer is the operating system (OS). It sets the standards that all applications must use to interface with the OS (see API and OS ).
CP/M, [3] originally standing for Control Program/Monitor[4] and later Control Program for Microcomputers, [5][6][7] is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080 / 85 -based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. CP/M is a disk operating system [8] and its purpose is to organize files on a magnetic storage m...
An operating system is a program that controls the execution of application programs and acts as an interface between the user of a computer and the computer hardware. A more common definition is that the operating system is the one program running at all times on the computer (usually called the kernel), with all else being application programs.
In this article, we'll tell you what a piece of software must do to be called an operating system, show you how the operating system in your desktop computer works and give you some examples of how to take control of the other operating systems around you.
A program that enhances an operating system by creating an environment in which you can run other programs.
An operating system is a piece of software that manages the allocation of computer hardware. The coordination of the hardware must be appropriate to ensure the correct working of the computer system and to prevent user programs from interfering with the proper working of the system.