Editing PL/M (section)

{{Short description|Programming language for microcomputers based on PL/1 and XPL}}
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{{Infobox programming language
 | name                   = PL/M
 | paradigm               = 
 | released               = {{Start date|1973|df=yes}}<ref name="Shustek_2016"/><ref name="Kildall_1993"/> 
 | developer              = [[Gary Kildall]]<ref name="Swaine_2001"/> at [[Microcomputer Applications Associates]]
 | influenced by          = [[PL/I]], [[XPL]]
 | influenced             = [[CP/M]], PLuS
 | website                = 
}}
'''PL/M''', an acronym for '''''P'''rogramming '''L'''anguage for '''M'''icrocomputers'',<ref name="Shustek_2016"/><ref name="Kildall_1993"/> is a high-level [[programming language|language]] conceived and developed by [[Gary Kildall]] in 1973 for [[Hank Smith (Intel)|Hank Smith]] at [[Intel]] for the [[Intel 8008]]. It was later expanded for the newer [[Intel 8080]].

The 8080 had enough power to run the PL/M compiler, but lacked a suitable form of [[mass storage]]. In an effort to port the language from the [[PDP-10]] to the 8080, Kildall used PL/M to write a [[disk operating system]] that allowed a [[floppy disk]] to be used. This was the basis of [[CP/M]].