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Home | Networking | Operating Systems | Hardware | Programming | Contents  Copyright © 2004 - 2013 history.uCan.us Last revised: February 26, 2013. Few people nowadays remember that the IBM PC was not the first "personal computer" and that MS-DOS was not the first industry standard operating system. In fact, MS-DOS was but an imperfect copy of the operating system that really has a claim to that title. The first generation of personal computers (or microcomputers, as they were known then) used chips like the Intel 8008, 8080, Zilog Z80, MOS Technology 6502 and Motorola 6800. While some early microcomputers (for example, the Apple II) used proprietary operating systems, hundreds of different manufacturers licensed a product called CP/M (as in Control Program / Monitor) made by a company called Digital Research. Long before the IBM PC and its clones / compatibles, the CP/M architecture provided for industry standard software that was portable across hundreds of different brands and models. This was DRI founder Gary Kildall's main contribution to the software industry. Microsoft simply followed in DRI's footsteps.