--- title: Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System description: Fifty years ago, Gary Kildall demonstrated CP/M, the first commercially successful personal computer operating system. The post tells the story of how CP/M was... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/fifty-years-of-the-personal-computer-operating-system-h7dqvtiyo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System | daily.dev og:description: Fifty years ago, Gary Kildall demonstrated CP/M, the first commercially successful personal computer operating system. The post tells the story of how CP/M was... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/fifty-years-of-the-personal-computer-operating-system-h7dqvtiyo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/h7dqvTiYO.png og:image:alt: Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Fifty years ago, Gary Kildall demonstrated CP/M, the first commercially successful personal computer operating system. The post tells the story of how CP/M was established as an industry standard and later lost to a version from Microsoft. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#computing-history](https://daily.dev/tags/computing-history), [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/fifty-years-of-the-personal-computer-operating-system-h7dqvtiyo) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/fifty-years-of-the-personal-computer-operating-system-h7dqvtiyo","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/fifty-years-of-the-personal-computer-operating-system-h7dqvtiyo"},"datePublished":"2024-04-24T13:37:59.399Z","dateModified":"2026-10-14T02:30:25.139Z","description":"Fifty years ago, Gary Kildall demonstrated CP/M, the first commercially successful personal computer operating system. The post tells the story of how CP/M was...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/3f590f888a08f8610e898d51f0e384fc?_a=AQAEufR","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/3f590f888a08f8610e898d51f0e384fc?_a=AQAEufR","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/fifty-years-of-the-personal-computer-operating-system-h7dqvtiyo","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"computing-history,general-programming","timeRequired":"PT10M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Fifty Years of the Personal Computer Operating System"}]} ```