Abstract
When the Intel 8088 and 8086 16-bit processor chips became available for a new generation of microcomputers then CP/M was soon amended to run on these. CP/M-86 is a version of CP/M 2.2 and contains all the standard CP/M commands. Because of the greater addressing capabilities of the new 16-bit processors application programs written with CP/M-86 in mind can address up to a megabyte (1 048 576 bytes) of RAM. All files written by CP/M-86 are compatible with 8-bit versions of CP/M and this allows easy communication of data between 8bit and 16-bit machines.
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© 1985 Peter Gosling
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Gosling, P. (1985). CP/M-86. In: Using CP/M. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07676-5_11
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