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[[File:CTOS-B25.JPG|thumb|250px|A Burroughs B25 computer running CTOS]]

The '''Convergent Technologies Operating System''', also known variously as '''CTOS''', '''BTOS''' and '''STARSYS''', was a modular, [[message-passing]], multiprocess-based [[operating system]].

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The system API was presented to both high-level languages and assembly language.

===Programs===

The assembler was very advanced, with a [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]]-like pattern-matching macro facility unmatched by almost any other assembler before or since. There was an always-resident debugger.