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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

Some industry experts believe that TI deliberately chose to disregard CP/M simply because the company did not write the programs and does not sell them.

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

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

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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