control program

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control program - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Control Program
  
     <operating system> (CP) The component of IBM's Virtual Machine
      (VM) that provides "guest support" for operating systems
      that run on IBM mainframe compatible processors.
     Cp does this by providing a seamless emulation of privileged
     functions in the problem program environment.
  
     (1999-01-19)