The 1979 CP/M OS— How Does It Look Today?

Dmitrii Eliuseev
8 min readFeb 14, 2021

I work as a software developer for many years, the very first systems I tried to write programs for, were MS-DOS and Windows 3.1. Once I got curious — how people used computers in the old times before I was born?

Now it’s easy to get an answer to this question — we can run this system on a modern PC. I will show how to set up the CM/M emulator and run some of the original software of that…

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Dmitrii Eliuseev

Python/IoT developer and data engineer, data science and electronics enthusiast