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A Short History of CP/M-86
The Early Battle for 16 bits
After their marriage, the couple moved to Monterey, and Mrs. Strutynski gained employment at the Naval Postgraduate School where she also began taking classes and working toward her master’s degree. As for the feature set, it would seem that each manufacturer sort of picked what they wanted from DRI’s software library and created a kind of distribution as we’d call it today. This version had a real time kernel and supported both single user and multiuser environments, networking (with Soft/Net providing LAN functions), shared libraries, GSX, IPC, and 8087 coprocessors.
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