It was designed to provide multi-programming services for online (interactive) user programs in addition to batch-mode production jobs, symbiont (spooled) I/O, and critical real-time processes.

System daemons, called "ghost jobs" were used to run monitor code in user space.

The CP-V (pronounced sea-pea-five) operating system, the compatible successor to UTS, was released in August 1973.

Honeywell offered to purchase Xerox Data Systems, initially to provide field service support to the existing customer base.

CP-6 and its accomplishments, its developers, and its customers are commemorated with a plaque on the community wall at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.