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12:50, 14 August 2006 '''CP/M''' is an [[Apps#Operating_Systems|operating system]] running on different computers with different CPUs.
It was developed by [[Gary Kildall]] of [[Digital Research|Digital Research, Inc.]] as a privat project from 1974 on, named '''''C'''ontrol '''P'''rogram/'''M'''onitor''. When becoming a commercial software in November 1977 it was renamed to '''''C'''ontrol '''P'''rogram for '''M'''icrocomputers''.