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The CP/M Operating System Manual was printed in the United States of America.
First Edition: 1976
Second Edition: July 1982
Third
Edition: September 1983
Table of Contents
1 - CP/M Features and Facilities
2 - ED
3 - CP/M Assembler
4 - CP/M Dynamic Debugging Tool
5 - CP/M 2 System Interface
6 - CP/M Alteration
Appendices
A - The MDS Basic I/O System (BIOS)
B - A Skeletal CBIOS
C - A Skeletal GETSYS/PUTSYS Program
D - The MDS-800 Cold Start Loader for CP/M 2
E - A Skeletal Cold Start Loader
F - CP/M Disk Definition Library
G - Blocking and Deblocking Algorithms
H - Glossary
I - CP/M Messages