OS-tans, Species, and Evolution

stewartsage · May 29, 2010, 08:35:41 PM

I'll vote yea, despite only following and not contributing. Am I eligible to vote?

Kiso · May 30, 2010, 12:50:33 AM

Quote from: "NejinOniwa"If basic species mean the division we were at in the beginning, then Big O lays his vote for this as well.

You're voting "yes" for non-consensus? Just like you to do such thing. lol

Anyways...

@Chocofreak13: f by making basic species you mean an evolution tree, I guess we will all differ in views.... just the way it is. But I guess I can vote "yes" if that means that we are going to agree on what is what. Then again, it may never be like that... unless we're talking about hardware. But when it comes to zeroes and ones... we're pretty much stuck.

I call "software" anything that's not physically tangible (OSes, Apps, Filetypes, Firmware, etc.) that is directly related to computer hardware... and you refer to software when you speak of apps/programs. Bella said that she views the different hardware parts as parts of a computer-tan's body. I share Bella's view, however, I also can view them as separate entities themselves... mainly because I've seen the illustrations on each hardware part already.

I don't know if it's just me, but if we want to move forwards with this. We actually need to agree on the really basic stuff. Then again... we could all end up arguing and just go back to drawing. I'd kinda' feel bad if something like the latter happened though.

EDIT: @stewartsage: You can vote if you want... you just need to know what we're talking about. You should also contribute... the more people that do, the more fun and random this might end up being.

Kiso · May 30, 2010, 12:53:52 AM

EDIT: delete double post (Whatever happened to the code that just added stuff to your last post if you double-posted?)

Chocofreak13 · May 30, 2010, 02:04:25 AM

stew: well, you're a contributing member of society, i don'[t see why you shouldn't have a say.

kiso: we are moving for the basic creation of the catagories i mentioned earlier, not evolution.

in case anyone forgot, they were:
hardware
software
firmware
OS
hybrid
filetype

so far that's 5 yays, 0 nays. aurora has yet to vote.

Aurora Borealis · May 30, 2010, 08:13:10 AM

I vote yea too.

NejinOniwa · May 30, 2010, 09:05:53 AM

Seems as if we've reached the consensus, then.

What was the stance on vintages, by the way? Classification in the basics may not be the best with the ways we've used them storyline-wise, so just "unclassified" or "Vintage Class" might be to prefer.

Aurora Borealis · May 30, 2010, 09:16:50 AM

Some of the vintage-tans are OS-tans, though many of them are hybrids.

Kiso · May 30, 2010, 09:18:34 AM

@Chocofreak: Uhm... yeah... I forgot that I needed to write the alternative to all that I wrote there... which basically amounts to... "yes". lol

Anyways... all of those categories do exist... I still view them differently, but yes... they exist already.

@Nejin: Ditto on what Aurora said.

Chocofreak13 · May 30, 2010, 12:18:27 PM

i believe we clarified that vintage will be a catagory of OS (or hybrid, depending on the circumstance).

alright. so we've established that the following species exist:
Hardware
Sfotware
Firmware
OS
Hybrid
Filetype

shall we move on to classes? :3

NejinOniwa · May 30, 2010, 03:00:55 PM

Move along. -w-

Chocofreak13 · May 30, 2010, 03:07:37 PM

alrighty. so for OSes, we have:

Mac
Windows
Vintage
Linux
Other

any others?

Aurora Borealis · May 30, 2010, 03:18:37 PM

Don't forget the Unixes and the mainframes.

The vintage class has some overlap with Mac and Windows. And Yggdrasil might count as a vintage Linux OS.

The DOSes are listed as their own class in the wiki and Annex Project.

NejinOniwa · May 30, 2010, 04:16:52 PM

Vintage is partly a subclass, since OSes can be both Vintage and another class - the old OLD Apple OSes and the like.

Bella · May 30, 2010, 04:20:58 PM

Mac
Linux
Unix
Windows
DOS

I'm not exactly feeling the vintage class, since it's so broad... it could refer to anything from a mainframe to a micro. I'd further the divisions to include various non-Unix:
-Minicomputer OSes (the DEC-tans and DG-tans for example)
-Microcomputers (OS/hardware hybrids like the Commodores, Ataris, early Apples)
-Mainframe-tans (the IBM-tans, CDC-tans, Multics, etc)
-Others

As for the Hardware-tans, it would seem Wikipedia has already laid out different classifications for us.

Chocofreak13 · May 30, 2010, 07:28:25 PM

good, good. ^^
i'm liking bella's sub-species of OSes, any other OS types anyone would like to add in? (of course we could debate for years over the numerous OSes in existance and whether or not to put them in.)

i'd like to add "others" to the OS list to cover any loose ends. :\ anyone opposed?