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• DOS is todays CP/M - Windows is tomorrows CP/M.
• Windows: The CP/M of the future!
• MS-DOS is CP/M on steroids.
• LPT /L-P-T/ or /lip'it/ or /lip-it'/ n. 1. Line printer (originally Line Printing Terminal).
  Rare under Unix, more common among hackers who grew up with ITS, MS-DOS, CP/M and other operating systems that were strongly influenced by early DEC conventions....
• DEC /dek/ n. 1. v. Verbal (and only rarely written) shorthand for decrement, i.
  e. `decrease by one'. Especially used by assembly programmers, as many assembly languages have a dec mnemonic....
• The Best Way To Accelerate A Macintoy is At 9.8 M/S^2 -- Charles A. Fee, .sig
• CP/M /C-P-M/ n. [Control Program/Monitor; later retconned to Control Program for Microcomputers] An early microcomputer OS written by hacker Gary Kildall for 8080- and Z80-based machine
  very popular in the late 1970s but virtually wiped out by MS-DOS after the release of the IBM PC in 1981....
• CP/M:: /C-P-M/ n. [Control Program for Microcomputers] An early microcomputer {OS} written by hacker Gary Kildall for 8080- and Z80-based machine
  very popular in the late 1970s but virtually wiped out by MS-DOS after the release of the IBM PC in 1981....
• ill-behaved adj. 1. [numerical analysis] Said of an algorithm or computational method that tends to blow up because of accumulated roundoff error or poor convergence properties.
  2. Software that bypasses the defined OS interfaces to do things (like screen, keyboard, and disk I/O) itself, often in a way that depends on the hardware of the machine it is running on or which is nonportable or incompatible with other pieces of software....