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CP/M

American

Trademark.

Control Program/Microprocessors: a microcomputer operating system.

CP/M British

noun

an operating system widely used on microcomputers to enable a wide range of software from many suppliers to be run on them

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It was sold for a quarter of the price of CP/M, a rival's product, and IBM's market power did the rest.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2014

Though sold under obscure brand names like CP/M, MS-DOS and UNIX, systems software for personal computers can be highly profitable, and last year sales totaled $500 million.

From Time Magazine Archive

Electronics experts were surprised to learn that the new models were not designed to use a popular computer-operating system called CP/M that provides the basis for many of the leading software programs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Digital Research of Pacific Grove, Calif, created the first popular one, CP/M, but it has been supplanted by MS-DOS, which was developed by Microsoft for the IBM Personal Computer.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rare under UNIX, commoner in hackers with MS-DOS or CP/M background.

From The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 by Raymond, Eric S.

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