Convergent Technologies Operating System: Difference between revisions

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The system shell was extensible — you could define new commands. Each command could request you fill out a form specifying the parameters it needed.

ThereA wasgame aincluded "rats"with gamethe OS proved to be very popular, programmed using the programmable font generator to do simple graphics: "[[Rats Of The Maze]]".

There was a transparent peer-to-peer network running over serial [[EIA-422|RS-422]] cables, and later over twisted pair with RS-422 adapters. Each workgroup, called a "cluster," was connected via a daisy-chain topology to a server, called a "master." The workstations, normally diskless, were booted over the cluster network from the master, and could optionally be locally booted from attached hard drives.