Microcomputer software Microcomputer software CHIP-8 is an interpreted programming language that was used on the COSMAC VIP and Telmac 1800 8-bit microcomputers in the mid- 1970s. CHIP-8 programs are run on a CHIP-8 virtual machine. It was made to allow video games to be more easily programmed for said computers. ...more on Wikipedia about "CHIP-8"
CP/M is an operating system originally created for Intel 8080/ 85 and Zilog Z80 based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc.. Initially confined to single tasking on 8-bit processors and no more than 64,000 bytes of memory, later versions of CP/M added multi-user variations, and were migrated to 16-bit processors. ...more on Wikipedia about "CP/M"
dBASE was the first widely used database management system or DBMS for microcomputers, published by Ashton-Tate for CP/M, and later on the Apple II, Apple Macintosh and IBM PC under DOS where it became one of the best-selling software titles for a number of years. dBASE was never able to transition successfully to Microsoft Windows and was eventually displaced by newer products like Paradox, Clipper, FoxPro, and Microsoft Access. dBASE was sold to Borland in 1991, which sold the rights to the product line in 1999 to the newly-formed dBASE Inc. ...more on Wikipedia about "DBASE"
DOS Plus (also known as DOS+) is an operating system written by Digital Research, first released in 1985. It can be seen as an intermediate step between CP/M-86 and DR-DOS. ...more on Wikipedia about "DOS Plus"
A machine code monitor (aka machine language monitor) is software built-into or separately available for various computers, allowing the user to enter commands to view and change memory locations on the machine, with options to load and save memory contents from/to secondary storage. ...more on Wikipedia about "Machine code monitor"
Multiplan was an early spreadsheet program developed by Microsoft. Introduced in 1982, initially for computers running CP/M it was ported to a number of other operating systems including MS-DOS and Xenix. Versions were also available for the Commodore 64 and the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A and Apple II series computer. Multiplan for the Apple Macintosh was Microsoft's first GUI spreadsheet - the others were text-based. ...more on Wikipedia about "MultiPlan"
In computing, PEEK is a BASIC programming language function used for reading the contents of a memory cell at a specified address. The corresponding command to set the contents of a memory cell is POKE. ...more on Wikipedia about "PEEK and POKE"
SuperCalc was a spreadsheet application published by Sorcim in 1980, and originally bundled (along with WordStar) as part of the CP/M software package included with the Osborne 1 portable computer. ...more on Wikipedia about "SuperCalc"
Tiny BASIC is a dialect of the BASIC programming language that can fit into as little as 2 or 3 KB of memory. This small "footprint" made it invaluable in the early days of microcomputers (the mid- 1970s), when typical memory size was 4–8 KB. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tiny BASIC"
VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet program available for personal computers. It is generally considered to be the application that turned the microcomputer from a hobby for computer enthusiasts into a serious business tool. ...more on Wikipedia about "VisiCalc"
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