Convergent Technologies was a company formed by a small group of people who left Intel Corporation in 1979. Convergent Technologies' first product was the IWS (Integrated Workstation) based on the Intel 8086, which ran Convergent Technologies Operating System - their first operating system. Convergent later used the Motorola 68010 in their MiniFrame, and later Motorola 68020 and 68040 processors in their VME-based MightyFrame systems, running a UNIX-like operating system called CTIX. Supplanting the IWS was the AWS (Advanced Workstation) which itself was replaced by the NGEN (New or Next Generation) workstation. The NGEN was known to Burroughs users as the B25, and was included the Intel 80186 CPU chip. Later models kept pace with Intel CPU development at least through the 80386 era. Convergent also developed the first Motorola 68010 OEM UNIX product for AT&T, and integrated a number features (Stream-based I/O, Multinational Language Support) to the Intel AT&T UNIX base (SVR3.2). CTOS and as a guest OS CTIX were also available on the Convergent MegaFrame, a multiple-CPU cooperative-processing machine that may have been in the super-minicomputer class of machines. The following article is about the multinational corporation; intel is also an abbreviation for intelligence, used in reference to military intelligence and espionage. ... An Intel 8086 Microprocessor The 8086 is a 16-bit microprocessor chip designed by Intel in 1978, which gave rise to the x86 architecture. ... The Convergent Technologies Operating System, also known variously as CTOS, BTOS and STARSYS, was a modular, message-passing, multi-process based operating system. ... The Motorola MC68010 processor is a 16/32-bit microprocessor from Motorola, made in the early 1980s. ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Guide to UNIX Unix or UNIX is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T Bell Labs employees including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ... The Motorola MC68010 processor is a 16/32-bit microprocessor from Motorola, made in the early 1980s. ...
Unisys bought Convergent Technologies in 1988, becoming its Network Systems Division. Unisys Corporation NYSE: UIS is a provider of information technology services and solutions with operations across the world. ...
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Unisys Corporation NYSE: UIS is a provider of information technology services and solutions with operations across the world.
Unisys is known for its patent on the LZW data compression algorithm, which is used in the common GIF image file format.
At the end of December 1994, CompuServe and Unisys announced that the U.S. patent which Unisys holds for LZW would be enforced for GIFs: all commercial programs capable of producing GIF files would be required to pay a license fee to Unisys.
The ConvergentTechnologies Operating System, also known variously as CTOS, BTOS and STARSYS, was a modular, message-passing, multi-process based operating system.
ConvergentTechnologies' first product was the IWS (Integrated Workstation) based on the Intel 8086 processor, which had CTOS as its operating system.
The single largest customer was Unisys, with whom ConvergentTechnologies merged to become one company in 1988.
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