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(physics) cycle per minute

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(systems engineering) critical path method

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Abbr. for “cycles per minute.”

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A system of project planning, scheduling, and control which combines all relevant information into a single master plan, permitting the establishment of the optimum sequence and duration of operations; the interrelation of all the efforts required to complete a construction project are shown; an indication is given of the efforts which are critical to timely completion of the project.

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Control Program for Microcomputers

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(1) (Critical Path Method) A project management planning and control technique. The critical path is the series of tasks that have no built-in slack time. Any one of those tasks that takes longer to complete lengthens the total project time.

(2) (Cost Per Mille/Milli - per thousand) CPM is typically the price paid for a banner ad on 1,000 Web pages. For example, a USD $25 CPM means each ad costs one quarter of one cent per impression. See eCPM, RPM and banner ad.

(3) (Copies Per Minute) The rated speed of a printer or copy machine.

(4) (CP/M) (Control Program for Microprocessors) A single user operating system for the 8080 and Z80 microprocessors. Created by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, CP/M had its heyday in the early 1980s, and although unsophisticated, was a major contributor to the personal computer revolution. However, CP/M computer vendors never standardized a floppy disk or screen format, requiring software publishers to create and stock multiple CP/M versions. After entering this uncontrolled market in 1981, IBM readily set the personal computer standards with its PC, and some of those standards remain to this day (see IBM PC).

CP/M Might Have Become DOS
Although IBM asked Kildall to provide the operating system for its new PC, he did not agree to IBM's demands. IBM went to Microsoft, which purchased QDOS from Seattle Computer Products and turned it into PC-DOS and MS-DOS. The rest is history. The irony is that Microsoft's DOS was modeled after CP/M. Digital Research was later acquired by Novell and then Caldera, which later merged with The SCO Group.

The Otrona Attache

Introduced in 1982, the Attache was the smallest CP/M portable computer on the market. Weighing 17 pounds and priced at USD $5,000, the Attache was an elite computer for prosperous families. (Image courtesy of Robin Bartlett.)

CP/M News Clips in Its Heyday

CP/M was the only OS that ran on microcomputers from different vendors. With a Z80 card, it even ran on the Apple II. A major contributor to the personal computer revolution, CP/M motivated IBM to create the PC; the most successful desktop platform in history.

CPM

Acronym	Definition
CPM➣Cost Per Thousand (impressions)
CPM➣Control Program for Microcomputers (early 8 bit operating system)
CPM➣Chronic Pain Management
CPM➣Certified Property Manager
CPM➣Corporate Performance Management
CPM➣Continuous Passive Motion (orthopedics treatment modality)
CPM➣Critical Path Method
CPM➣Crisis Prevention and Management (Vermont)
CPM➣Codigo Penal Militar (Portuguese: Military Penal Code; Brazil)
CPM➣Combinatorial Pattern Matching
CPM➣Certified Public Manager (US)
CPM➣Component Parts and Materials (committees)
CPM➣Center for Preventive Medicine (various locations)
CPM➣Center for Performance Measurement (various organizations)
CPM➣Counts Per Minute
CPM➣Commercial Property Manager
CPM➣Copies Per Minute
CPM➣Crop Production Management (North Dakota)
CPM➣Cost Per Mille
CPM➣Certified Professional Midwife
CPM➣College Preparatory Mathematics
CPM➣Construction Project Management
CPM➣Communications Project Management (various locations)
CPM➣Centres de Préparation au Mariage (French: Centers for Marriage Preparation)
CPM➣Contingency Planning Management
CPM➣Certified Payroll Manager
CPM➣Cotton Pest Management (agriculture)
CPM➣Chemistry Pre-Med (various schools)
CPM➣Credit Portfolio Management
CPM➣Christian Pentecostal Mission (outreach ministry)
CPM➣Child Protection Mediation (various locations)
CPM➣Central Park Media (US anime/manga publisher)
CPM➣Certified Professional Manager
CPM➣Commercial Project Management (various locations)
CPM➣Cents Per Mile (trucking industry)
CPM➣Continuous Phase Modulation
CPM➣Citrix Password Manager
CPM➣Cost per Market
CPM➣Copper Passthru Module
CPM➣Challenge Pro Mode
CPM➣Communications Performance Monitor
CPM➣Cisco Photonics Manager
CPM➣Conceptual Process Model
CPM➣Control Program for Microprocessors
CPM➣Certified Project Manager
CPM➣Conference Preparatory Meeting (ITU)
CPM➣Coût par Mille (French: Cost per Thousand)
CPM➣Clinical Practice Management (various organizations)
CPM➣Cycles Per Minute
CPM➣Certified Purchasing Manager
CPM➣Coast Property Management (various locations)
CPM➣Collaborative Production Management
CPM➣Conflict Prevention Mechanism (various locations)
CPM➣Cents Per Minute
CPM➣Certificate Program in Management (various schools)
CPM➣Central Pontine Myelinolysis (neurologic disease)
CPM➣Clicks per Minute
CPM➣Challenge ProMode Arena (Quake gaming)
CPM➣Certified Practising Marketer (Australia)
CPM➣Church Planting Movement
CPM➣Communications Processor Module
CPM➣Content Planning Module (US Navy)
CPM➣Collaborative Project Management
CPM➣Characters Per Minute
CPM➣Civilian Personnel Management (USACE)
CPM➣College of Performance Management (Project Management Institute)
CPM➣Computer Power Management
CPM➣Condo Project Manager (software)
CPM➣Client Policy Manager (security software)
CPM➣Capital Program Management
CPM➣Communist Party of Malaya
CPM➣Caisse de Prévoyance Mulhousienne (French: Mulhouse Provident Fund; Mulhouse, France)
CPM➣Cost Per Minute
CPM➣Central Policy Manager (various companies)
CPM➣Consumer Product Manufacturing (various organizations)
CPM➣Comprehensive Performance Management
CPM➣Critical Phase Matching
CPM➣Care Planning Meeting
CPM➣Carboxypeptidase M (protein)
CPM➣Center for Practice Management (various organizations)
CPM➣Choeur Philharmonique de Marseille (French: Marseille Philharmonic Choir; Marseille, France)
CPM➣Common Programming Model (software development)
CPM➣Continuous Performance Monitoring (software)
CPM➣Creative Production Management (Los Angeles, CA)
CPM➣Certified Product Manager
CPM➣Control Program Monitor
CPM➣Call Progress Monitoring (software)
CPM➣Contract Performance Management
CPM➣Centre for Popular Memory (University of Cape Town; South Africa)
CPM➣Crucible Particle Metallurgy (proprietary steel manufacturing process)
CPM➣Chartered Portfolio Manager
CPM➣Cards Per Minute
CPM➣Civilian Personnel Manual
CPM➣Colliding Pulse Mode (Locked Laser)
CPM➣Comptoir Pharmaceutique et Médical (French: Pharmaceutical and Medical Counter)
CPM➣Composite Page Mode (computing)
CPM➣Centre Provençal de la Mucoviscidose (French cystic fibrosis center)
CPM➣Control Program for Microprocessors (less common)
CPM➣Critical Parameter Management (Six Sigma)
CPM➣Control Processor Module
CPM➣Constant Passive Motion
CPM➣Channel Photomultiplier
CPM➣Customer Program Management
CPM➣Canadian Postal Museum
CPM➣Church Planting Missionary
CPM➣California Pellet Mill Co
CPM➣Career Program Manager (US DoD)
CPM➣Capability Portfolio Manager
CPM➣Communist Party of India, Marxists
CPM➣Customer Profile Management
CPM➣Center for Precision Metrology (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
CPM➣Country Program Manager
CPM➣Central Processor Module
CPM➣Cloud Parameterization and Modeling (US Department of Energy)
CPM➣Chamber Pressure Management (semiconductors)
CPM➣Compagnie des Parquets Massifs (French: Solid Flooring Company)
CPM➣Communist Party of Malaysia (est. 1983)
CPM➣Client Project Manager
CPM➣Capital Project Management, Inc.
CPM➣Cost Performance Management
CPM➣Contractor Performance Measurement
CPM➣Compressed Pattern Matching (data compression)
CPM➣Cesarean Prevention Movement (now ICAN)
CPM➣Compensation Policy Memoranda (OPM)
CPM➣Continuous Presence Multipoint
CPM➣Center Program Manager
CPM➣Continuously Powered Main Storage
CPM➣Cluster Processor Module
CPM➣Community Panel Member (various locations)
CPM➣Copper Pass-Thru Module (IBM)
CPM➣Category-Partition Method
CPM➣Coordinadora Político-Militar (El Salvador)
CPM➣Congregation of the Fathers of Mercy (religious order)
CPM➣CVX Policy Manager
CPM➣Contractors Plant & Machinery (construction insurance)
CPM➣Central Password Manager (Cyber-Ark)
CPM➣Center for Pain Medicine
CPM➣Client Program Manager
CPM➣Completely Positive Map
CPM➣Community Papers of Michigan
CPM➣Customer Portfolio Margin
CPM➣Confidence Profile Method
CPM➣Core Processing Module
CPM➣Continuous Particle Monitor
CPM➣Common Point Minimum Check (airlines)
CPM➣Computer Program Module (NASA)
CPM➣Combination Port Module (Cisco)
CPM➣Consolidated Project Management
CPM➣Continue Present Management (Medical)
CPM➣Chemical Processes and Materials
CPM➣Call Protocol Message
CPM➣Complaints per Million (feedback analysis)
CPM➣Container/Pallet Distribution Message (aviation)
CPM➣Cincinnati Pepsi Marlins (USA-league swimteam)
CPM➣Computer Program Media
CPM➣Commander's Policy Memorandums (USACE)
CPM➣Cost Performance Measure
CPM➣Computer Program Protection Manager
CPM➣Critical Performance Measure
CPM➣California Pavement Maintenance Company, Inc.
CPM➣Called Party Free Message (ITU-T)
CPM➣Change and Problem Management (Sprint)
CPM➣Computer Project Manager
CPM➣Copra Meal
CPM➣Cell Processing Module (Sprint)
CPM➣Central Processor and Memory (Nortel)
CPM➣Construction/Contract Project Manager
CPM➣Construction Procedures Manual
CPM➣Common Provider Master (Database)
CPM➣Compton, California Woodley Airport (airport code)
CPM➣Center for Policy Modeling
CPM➣Choeur Polyphonique de Montréal (Montreal, QB, Canada choir)
CPM➣Computer Performance Management/Measurement
CPM➣Cultural Pattern Model
CPM➣Certify Pin Multiplayer (Synplicity)
CPM➣Centrally Packed Meat
CPM➣Coalition to Protect Marriage
CPM➣Current Plan Month
CPM➣Cyclical Preventative Maintenance
CPM➣Common Packet Multiplexer
CPM➣Controlled Product Management

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