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''.
'''CP/M''' shipped with the disk models of the Amstrad CPC and the [[DDI-1]] disc drive on one or two [[System Disk]]s.
== MicroDOS ==