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by wvenable 2370 days ago
The MS-DOS Program Segment Prefix[1] exists for source compatibility with CP/M.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_Segment_Prefix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_page_(CP/M)

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Also, first 9 or so functions of INT 21h were directly analogous to CP/M's BDOS. DOS also used FCB similar to CP/M.