Editing Convergent Technologies (section)

===AWS===
Introduced in November 1981,<ref>{{cite news |title=Convergent Adds Desktops |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=94T9BTjdzT0C&pg=RA1-PA17 |publisher=ComputerWorld |date=November 23, 1981 |pages=49–50}}</ref> the next product was a cost-reduced desktop version called the AWS (Application Workstation) utilizing an [[Intel 8275]] CRT controller instead of the custom video board used in the IWS. The IWS and AWS were compatible and ran in an [[RS-422]] clustered environment under the proprietary [[Convergent Technologies Operating System]] (CTOS).<ref name="NetworkWorld">{{cite news|last1=Petrosky|first1=Mary|title=CTI strives for diversity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gxwEAAAAMBAJ&q=%22Convergent+Technologies%22&pg=PA9|accessdate=13 November 2017|publisher=Network World|date=20 July 1987}}</ref> In December 1982, Convergent announced the AWS Turbo Color Graphics Workstation using the [[NEC 7220]] graphics controller with 128 KB display memory.<ref>{{cite news |title=New systems |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FTAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA63 |work=InfoWorld |date=Dec 20, 1982}}</ref>

The AWS was sold by Burroughs as the [[Burroughs B20|B21]], by [[Groupe Bull|Bull]] as the Corail B4000, by [[Prime Computer]] as the Prime Producer 100 (a word processing workstation), by NCR as the WorkSaver 200, and by Savin as the Information Station 1000.<ref name="Savin" />