<company> The company formed in 1984-5 when {Burroughs Corporation} merged with Sperry Corporation. This was when the phrase "dinosaurs mating" was coined. Unisys is one of the largest providers of information services, technology, and software in the world. They employ about 49,000 people and do business in some 100 countries. In 1994 about 80 percent of revenue was derived from commercial information systems and services, with the remainder coming from electronic systems and services for the defense market. The defense business was sold to Loral in early 1995. Slightly more than half of Unisys's revenue is from business in the United States. They specialise in providing business-critical solutions, based on open information networks, for organisations that operate in transaction-intensive environments. These organisations include financial services companies, airlines, telecommunications companies, government agencies, and other commercial enterprises. In August 1994, quarterly sales were $1799M and profits $50M. http://unisys.com/. (1995-03-21)

The OS 2200 communications management system includes CPComm and MCB along with many programs that provide communications related functions such as file transfer, e-mail, and distributed transaction processing protocols.

The figure shows a high-level architecture of the OS 2200 system identifying major hardware and software components. The majority of the Unisys software is included in the subsystems and applications area of the model.

OS 2200 supports all commonly used, and many not so commonly used, distributed processing protocols, APIs, and development technology.

The OS 2200 database managers are all part of the Universal Data System (UDS). UDS provides a common control structure for multiple different data models.

<operating system> Unisys's operating system from about 1980 to 2000, by which time it was a dying breed with Unisys moving to Windows NT and Unix. [Was 8 the successor to EXEC 2?] (2000-08-06)

<company> 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. Unisys bought Convergent Technologies in 1988. [Who bought/merged with who and when?] (1998-04-03)

Convergent Technologies was an American computer company formed by a small group of people who left Intel Corporation and Xerox PARC in 1979. Among the founders were CEO Allen Michels, VP Engineering Bob Garrow, head of marketing Kal Hubler, and operating system architect Ben Wegbreit.

OS 2200 has had several generations of compilers and linkers in its history supporting a wide variety of programming languages. In the first releases, the Exec II assembler (SLEUTH) and compilers were used.