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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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Example Sentences

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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

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

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

Not like the old Attorney General lab, where they had an ancient CP/M machine, assorted Amiga flavors and Apple flavors, a couple IBMS, all the utility software ... but no Commodores.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce

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