http://www.histoireinform.com/Histoire/+infos2/chr4infr.htm
Note the lectern is disconnected from the monitor, and is on the left instead of the right.
Also notice the plug coming out of the left edge of the lectern base...probably for the monitor?
But the ones in the brochure clipped to the lectern look right:
And then there's this one:
"Le Questar 400 est un terminal intelligent construit sous licence Convergent Technology, doté du système d'exploitation CTOS francisé par Bull MTS sous le nom de STARSYS. La licence en avait été acquise par Thomson DAP (intégré à Bull en 1983) et introduite sous le nom de Corail."
English Translation:
The Questar 400 is an intelligent terminal built under a Convergent Technology license, equipped with the CTOS operating system, which has been Frenchified by Bull MTS under the name STARSYS. The license had been acquired by Thomson DAP (integrated into Bull in 1983) and introduced under the name Corail.
However, other sources refer to the Bull Quester 400 as the NGEN system, which is the descendant machine to the AWS.
So, it seems that the only place where the Corail B4000 is called the Bull Quester 400 is this page...BUT, there are 3 machines right below it, that really ARE the Bull Quester 400 (NGEN), so perhaps they just lumped them all into the same pile without making the distinction in the text surrounding the pictures.
So, we have concluded that
Corail B4000 = AWS
Bull Questar 400 = NGEN
(CTOS, BTOS, STARSYS) /see-toss/ A modular, message-passing, multi-process based operating system.
"Companies which have licensed CTOS include Burroughs (BTOS) and Bull (STARSYS)."
So, did just the Bull Quester 400 (NGEN run STARSYS, or did the Corail B4000 also run STARSYS?
Please contact us here if you have any info on this that we are mistaken about, or aren't reporting here.
