CP/M
Americannoun
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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
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
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
IBM clones were the most common, but an assort- ment of older machines, a CP/M or two, even a Commodore PET proved that expensive new equipment was not needed to become a respected hacker.
From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn
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