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Category: Vintage Computing

Convergent Technologies CTOS/BTOS hints, tips, and notes

June 14, 2020
by admin in Vintage Computing

I’ve been playing with some old CTOS-based Convergent NGEN (Burroughs B25, B26, etc) workstations lately. Documentation on these is a little bit sparse, so I decided to keep a log of my notes. This blog post is going to concentrate on running the CTOS operating system on actual period-accurate hardware — not on a virtual …

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