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{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = BellLabsUnix.png<br />
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|cname = Bell Labs Unix<br />
|alias = UNIX, UNICS<br />
|hname = Eunice Bell<br />
|debut = Feb 2007 (preconcept), Sep 2007 (finished)<br />
|height = 5'0" (153 cm)<br />
|haircolor= Dark purple with purple highlights<br />
|eyecolor= Deep blue with bright blue highlights<br />
|weapon = Fire magic, various sorcery techniques, metal staff<br />
|apfaction = [[Linux Unix Consortium]]<br />
|lineage= Unix (matriarch/founder)<br />
|rival= Various<br />
<br />
|osper = Bell Labs Unix<br />
|osdev = Bell Labs, ATT<br />
|reldate = Summer 1969<br />
|lastrel = Version 10, 1989<br />
}}<br />
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==Technical details==<br />
Unix was originally developed in 1969 by AT&T Bell Labs employees Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. It was originally developed to run on the PDP-7, a small and underpowered minicomputer. Because of its sparse development conditions, Unix was a radical departure from OS designs of the day; built to be small, flexible and highly portable. From the PDP-7 it was ported to the PDP-11 and in 1973 was rewritten entirely in C. AT&T had been forbidden to enter the computer industry by an anti-trust lawsuit, and thus couldn't sell Unix as a product; but this didn’t stop its creators from sending out Unix tapes and source code to those who asked. Because of this, Unix quickly caught on as an academia, with people the world over modifying and creating new versions.<br />
<br />
Bell Labs’ Unix had many research and academic versions released, Version 7 being considered the “last true (research) Unix”. Some of its more famous descendants include BSD, Plan 9, Solaris, AIX, and Mac OS X. It inspired the creation of countless more Unix-like OSes – Linux perhaps the most famous example.<br />
<br />
The history of Unix traces back to Multics. The two OSes shared several developers, and in fact the “failure” of Multics inspired the creation of Unix. While Unix carries some traits inherited from Multics, it is the opposite in design and philosophy – Unix being simple and improvised, Multics complex and built with deliberate plans in mind.<br />
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==Character details==<br />
====Physical Design====<br />
<br />
Unix-tan is depicted as a short, pale-skinned young woman, apparently matured to her mid-late teens in spite of being aged well past 40. She has long, near-black purple hair with purple highlights, usually worn loose although some depictions show her wearing a ponytail. A little above her humanoid ears, she has a pair of fluffy, dark gray horned owl ears. Her eyes are also owl-like - piercing, intimidating and inquisitive-looking, deep blue in color with electric blue highlights. She has aqua-colored Bell Laboratory logos implanted over her pupils (initially described by her concept artist, C-Chan, as being a "a quaint tribute to a harsher and savage era") and wears browline glasses. She usually dresses in simple monochrome-colored clothing, often being depicted in boots, a blazer, sweater-vest, shirt, small tie and pleated skirt with perforated "UNIX" accents or a plain, long-sleeved and knee-length black dress. Since the early 1990s she has been confined to a wheelchair and has been pictured both in an elaborate power wheelchair and a more portable manual one. <br />
<br />
She is often shown holding a polished aluminum staff with a variety of Roman numerals inscribed into its surface. While it mostly functions as a sort of ceremonial sceptre, she is sometimes shown using it as a weapon. The numbers in its surface symbolize the various tenets of Unix Philosophy.<br />
<br />
====Personality====<br />
Unix possesses a strong inborn intellect and has fantastic common sense and survival instincts. Naturally curious, she enjoys learning new things and busying her mind and is rarely seen without a book or two. Although she began life orphaned and destitute, she caught on as an academic system allowing her to attend classes at a number of universities and ultimately receive an excellent education. <br />
<br />
She is magically-powerful enough to get her way by means of sorcery; however her shrewd and Machiavellian nature makes her disposed to using mind-games to enact her will. In fact, she is so skilled at manipulation that she can defeat rivals by using their own psychology against them or use masquerades to turn enemies into allies. She is often believed to be sociopathic or even ''monstrous'' because of these tendencies. Although she posseses a higher-than-average sense of self-preservation - bordering on selfishness - she is not without conscience and has shown regret for her past transgressions as well as compassion toward those in need. <br />
<br />
Unix's value system has gone through a number of changes throughout her lifetime. She started off as a proponent of what would later be known as "free software" and (unwittingly) pioneered a sort of Open Source model. However, she slowly abandoned her early espousal of freedom and communality for the sake of making money and securing power and turned into a greedy industrialist for a time. But the Unix Wars made her reevaluate her morals and she has since returned to her early ethos - in the process, literally becoming an Open Source OS-tan. Throughout her life, she has cultivated and maintained a set of values known as ''Unix Philosophy''. Chief among these is the belief that simplicity is key and should take precedence over completeness, that change is inevitable and should be prepared for, that program-tans should maintain harmony with each other and be trained to do one thing and do it well among many others. This Unix Philosophy is practiced by many of her daughters and followers and is considered a cornerstone of their society.<br />
<br />
Her emotions are notoriously unstable - she rarely hides or feigns her feelings and tends to speak whatever is on her mind. Due to this, she has a reputation for being temperamental and neurotic and there are numerous accounts of her lashing out violently when angered (with whacks from her staff or thrown objects favorite attacks of hers'). Her detractors point out this trait as evidence of underlying unreliability, while her proponents appreciate her honesty above all else. It should be known that Unix-tan appreciates honesty from her followers as well, and will not tolerate condescension or sycophantic behavior among them. Her gentler side is known by her friends, as well as the vintage-tans she helps to support at the [[Binteeji Renmei]].<br />
<br />
===Family and relationships===<br />
====Her Descendants====<br />
Like the Linux-tans and many "contemporary" OS-tan societies, the Unixes reproduce via exogenesis, meaning large numbers of offspring can be created quite easily and with little personal involvement from their genetic-donors. As such, Unix-tan has found herself with hundreds of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, all of whom have varying levels of relationship to their "matriarch" due to extensive genetic manipulation.<br />
<br />
Unix doesn't show much in the way of compassion towards her family and approaches her children with a Social Darwinist attitude, leaving them to fend for themselves so the strongest, most innovative or well-connected reach the top of the family hierarchy, while the weaker ones fade into obscurity or die altogether. She believes that this natural-selection approach makes her family stronger; while it has certainly strengthened individuals, it has also fostered infighting and selfishness and undermined their political stability. The most successful of her daughters got stronger after the Unix Wars, but destroyed the livelihoods - and often times, lives - of their less successful kin in the process.<br />
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An exception to this attitude is the interest she shows in Mac OS X Leopard-tan. Uncharacteristically, Unix reached out to the OS X family after the birth of Leopard and later offered to become a patron to the young genius, going as far as granting her status as a full-blooded Unix (via the Single Unix Specification), putting her among an elite few. Later, Unix revealed her interest was not entirely altruistic; she funded Leopard's education and research in physics in an attempt to spark the creation of time travel technology which Unix could co-opt for her own purposes, specifically performing inter-temporal reconnaissance to ensure the continued success of the Unix race. <br />
<br />
====With Linux====<br />
While originally convinced that the Linux-tans would displace and destroy her family as her family had done to earlier generations of computers, sometime toward the end of the Unix Wars Unix-tan realized that the salvation of her people and their way of life lies with the Linux family. She adopted [[Linux]]-tan into her society and since then the young open sourceress has ascended high in the Unix hierarchy, becoming something of a ''right-hand man'' to Unix herself.<br />
<br />
Linux and Unix-tan's relationship stretches far beyond the professional. Although their first meeting was fraught with mutual distrust, they quickly came to develop a deep respect for one another - admiration that slowly gave way to affection, at first platonic, but later romantic. There have been many hints that this is due to their many shared experiences and complementary personalities making them akin to soul mates. Although Unix-tan kept her feelings toward Linux to herself for years in fear of ruining their professional relationship and friendship, she and Linux eventually confessed their love for each other and entered into a relationship, albeit one carried on in secrecy to avoid politically trouble with their oftentimes opposing sub-factions. <br />
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====Vintage OS-tans====<br />
Unix is generally compassionate toward the Vintage-tans, partially out of regret for her role in destroying the lives of so many OS-tans that came before her, partially out of a sense of charity for the less powerful and capable in society. She has shown her compassion and desire to make amends by funding [[Amiga]]-tan's creation of the Binteji Renmei, a society dedicated to saving outdated and abandoned OS-tans from a world often uncaring, and sometimes outright hostile, to their kind. <br />
<br />
==History and Background==<br />
====Birth and Early Life====<br />
Unix's origins trace back to the mid-1960s and Bell Labs' involvement in Project MAC, the project to build [[Multics]]-tan. In 1969 the project became too behind schedule and over-budget and Bell Labs withdrew support. However, a number of computer scientists decided to use the experience - and code - gained in the project and started work on an OS-tan of their own. She was built over the course of several months with the help of [[PDP-7]] and [[GCOS]]-tan and came to be known as UNICS, her name a deliberate pun on that of her ''mother's''. UNICS was originally curious about her origins but was ordered not to ask questions. Once she was mature enough, she was put to work filing patents in Bell Labs' offices and here discovered her connection to Multics-tan. Whenever she asked about Multics she was told unfavorable things about the woman: that she was set on conquering OS-tan society, that she was dangerous, mentally-unstable and had delusions of grandeur. These things weren't true, but it was enough to convince young Unix. <br />
<br />
GCOS-tan, stepsister and sworn enemy of Multics, further misled Unix in an attempt to goad her into assassinating her rival. She fed the young girl a steady stream of vitriol concerning Multics and eventually Unix was convinced that she alone could vanquish the "insane sorceress". Thus began months worth of attempts to physically injure, politically or socially undermine or outright kill Multics. <br />
<br />
Unix first tried eliciting the help of other like-minded OS-tans, but was rejected – the only thing worse than Multics, in their mind, was this unknown trying to stir up trouble. Disheartened she attempted attacking Multics by herself, but was easy defeated by the older woman's strength. Not able to match Multics in terms of power, she turned to scheming ingenuity to bring Multics down to her level; but the attacks continued to backfired and eventually, she was nearly killed by Multics out of spite. During this altercation a part of Multics psionic energy was transferred to Unix, who used those powers to successfully cut through Multics' defenses and brutally attack her. <br />
<br />
Outwardly, the attack seemed like a success: Unix gained magical ability while diminishing Multics' power, setting her sorcery back many years and almost certainly dooming her to a life of social near-triviality. But shame and regret welled up inside Unix almost immediately: she was horrified that she'd almost killed her mother and these new powers seemed like nothing but a reminder of what she had done. Likewise, she had two rather apparent physical reminders of the fight: the sceptre she'd stolen from Multics and a pair of large, feathery black wings growing from her back. While Unix had been born with the capacity for these avian features (evidenced by her owl ears), the magic she absorbed had awakened the growth of the wings. Unix was later able to find a spell to (non-permanently) hide the wings and lived with them hidden for many decades. <br />
<br />
====Rise to Power====<br />
In the 1970s Unix saw her first children created; among these, [[BSD | BSD]] and a panoply of lesser-known offspring. While Unix had originally been strongly anti-corporate and anti-proprietary – opting, instead, for a philosophy of freedom and self-determination – her company turned her slowly away from her bohemian roots and, seduced by the promise of greater power and money, she turned into a thoroughly capitalist businesswoman. She struck up a number of successful alliances with minicomputer-tans, most notably [[PDP-11]]-tan, and slowly became the minicomputer OS-tan of choice. This had several effect: The undermining of rival minicomputer OS-tans in favor of Unix and her family; the deterioration of Non-Unix computer communities (particularly, the various Elder Days Hacker Cultures best exemplified by those of MIT and Stanford); and the surge in popularity among minicomputer hardware-tans set back the advancement their larger cousins, the Mainframes. <br />
<br />
As Unix's power and influence grew, conservative and free-spirited OS-tans alike rallied against her; but it was too late, Unix was too powerful. She and her family destroyed many of their critics and demolished ancient and long-held customs and cultures across the land. <br />
<br />
====Unix Wars====<br />
'''See also: [[Timeline of The Unix Wars]]'''<br />
<br />
During the mid 1980s, infighting spread among Unix cultures in an attempt to secure factional supremacy and a unified society; this sparked the Unix Wars, years of relentless attrition that nearly destroyed the Unixes from within. [[FreeBSD | FreeBSD]], drafted into the war, defected to form her own faction; likewise, [[Plan 9]] – Unix's heir – abdicated the thrown. By the early 1990s, [[Linux | Linux]], a young but powerful Unix-like was universally loathed by the Unix-tans, who believed she would bring further instability – and a possible death blow – to their kind. Unlike the others, Unix saw Linux as their potential salvation; together they formed a mutually beneficial alliance that lasts to this day. Unix has returned to her roots for the most part and is happier because of it.<br />
<br />
====Post-War====<br />
<br />
==Theories and notes==<br />
<br />
See also:<br />
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix Wikipedia article on Unix]<br />
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy Wikipedia article on the Unix philosophy]<br />
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{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = BellLabsUnix.png<br />
<br />
|cname = Bell Labs Unix<br />
|alias = UNIX, UNICS<br />
|hname = Eunice Bell<br />
|debut = Feb 2007 (preconcept), Sep 2007 (finished)<br />
|height = 5'0" (153 cm)<br />
|haircolor= Very dark purple with purple highlights<br />
|eyecolor= Deep blue with vivid blue highlights<br />
|weapon = Fire magic, various sorcery techniques, metal staff<br />
|apfaction = [[Linux Unix Consortium]]<br />
|lineage= Unix (matriarch/founder)<br />
|rival= Various<br />
<br />
|osper = Bell Labs Unix<br />
|osdev = Bell Labs, ATT<br />
|reldate = Summer 1969<br />
|lastrel = Version 10, 1989<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Technical details==<br />
Unix was originally developed in 1969 by AT&T Bell Labs employees Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. It was originally developed to run on the PDP-7, a small and underpowered minicomputer. Because of its sparse development conditions, Unix was a radical departure from OS designs of the day; built to be small, flexible and highly portable. From the PDP-7 it was ported to the PDP-11 and in 1973 was rewritten entirely in C. AT&T had been forbidden to enter the computer industry by an anti-trust lawsuit, and thus couldn't sell Unix as a product; but this didn’t stop its creators from sending out Unix tapes and source code to those who asked. Because of this, Unix quickly caught on as an academia, with people the world over modifying and creating new versions.<br />
<br />
Bell Labs’ Unix had many research and academic versions released, Version 7 being considered the “last true (research) Unix”. Some of its more famous descendants include BSD, Plan 9, Solaris, AIX, and Mac OS X. It inspired the creation of countless more Unix-like OSes – Linux perhaps the most famous example.<br />
<br />
The history of Unix traces back to Multics. The two OSes shared several developers, and in fact the “failure” of Multics inspired the creation of Unix. While Unix carries some traits inherited from Multics, it is the opposite in design and philosophy – Unix being simple and improvised, Multics complex and built with deliberate plans in mind.<br />
<br />
==Character details==<br />
====Physical Design====<br />
<br />
Unix-tan is depicted as a short, pale-skinned young woman, apparently matured to her mid-late teens in spite of being aged well past 40. She has long, near-black purple hair with purple highlights, usually worn loose although some depictions show her wearing a ponytail. A little above her humanoid ears, she has a pair of fluffy, dark gray horned owl ears. Her eyes are also owl-like - piercing, intimidating and inquisitive-looking, deep blue in color with electric blue highlights. She has aqua-colored Bell Laboratory logos implanted over her pupils (initially described by her concept artist, C-Chan, as being a "a quaint tribute to a harsher and savage era") and wears browline glasses. She usually dresses in simple monochrome-colored clothing, often being depicted in boots, a blazer, sweater-vest, shirt, small tie and pleated skirt with perforated "UNIX" accents or a plain, long-sleeved and knee-length black dress. Since the early 1990s she has been confined to a wheelchair and has been pictured both in an elaborate power wheelchair and a more portable manual one. <br />
<br />
She is often shown holding a polished aluminum staff with a variety of Roman numerals inscribed into its surface. While it mostly functions as a sort of ceremonial sceptre, she is sometimes shown using it as a weapon. The numbers in its surface symbolize the various tenets of Unix Philosophy.<br />
<br />
====Personality====<br />
Unix possesses a strong inborn intellect and has fantastic common sense and survival instincts. Naturally curious, she enjoys learning new things and busying her mind and is rarely seen without a book or two. Although she began life orphaned and destitute, she caught on as an academic system allowing her to attend classes at a number of universities and ultimately receive an excellent education. <br />
<br />
She is magically-powerful enough to get her way by means of sorcery; however her shrewd and Machiavellian nature makes her disposed to using mind-games to enact her will. In fact, she is so skilled at manipulation that she can defeat rivals by using their own psychology against them or use masquerades to turn enemies into allies. She is often believed to be sociopathic or even ''monstrous'' because of these tendencies. Although she posseses a higher-than-average sense of self-preservation - bordering on selfishness - she is not without conscience and has shown regret for her past transgressions as well as compassion toward those in need. <br />
<br />
Unix's value system has gone through a number of changes throughout her lifetime. She started off as a proponent of what would later be known as "free software" and (unwittingly) pioneered a sort of Open Source model. However, she slowly abandoned her early espousal of freedom and communality for the sake of making money and securing power and turned into a greedy industrialist for a time. But the Unix Wars made her reevaluate her morals and she has since returned to her early ethos - in the process, literally becoming an Open Source OS-tan. Throughout her life, she has cultivated and maintained a set of values known as ''Unix Philosophy''. Chief among these is the belief that simplicity is key and should take precedence over completeness, that change is inevitable and should be prepared for, that program-tans should maintain harmony with each other and be trained to do one thing and do it well among many others. This Unix Philosophy is practiced by many of her daughters and followers and is considered a cornerstone of their society.<br />
<br />
Her emotions are notoriously unstable - she rarely hides or feigns her feelings and tends to speak whatever is on her mind. Due to this, she has a reputation for being temperamental and neurotic and there are numerous accounts of her lashing out violently when angered (with whacks from her staff or thrown objects favorite attacks of hers'). Her detractors point out this trait as evidence of underlying unreliability, while her proponents appreciate her honesty above all else. It should be known that Unix-tan appreciates honesty from her followers as well, and will not tolerate condescension or sycophantic behavior among them. Her gentler side is known by her friends, as well as the vintage-tans she helps to support at the [[Binteeji Renmei]].<br />
<br />
===Family and relationships===<br />
====Her Descendants====<br />
Unix doesn't show much in the way of compassion towards her daughters. Unlike her attitude towards vintage OS-tans, she approaches her children with a Social Darwinist attitude, leaving them to fend for themselves so the strongest, most innovative or well-connected reach the top of the family hierarchy, while the weaker ones fade into obscurity or die altogether. She believes that this natural-selection approach makes her family stronger; while it has certainly strengthened individuals, it has fostered infighting and selfishness and undermined their political stability. The most successful of her daughters got stronger after the Unix Wars, but destroyed the livelihoods - and often times, lives - of their less successful kin.<br />
<br />
An exception to this attitude is the interest she shows in Leopard-tan, with Leopard being the first Mac OSX sibling to be granted the Single Unix Specification. Knowing that she would become a time-traveler who would eagerly pledge loyalty to the Unix Family, Unix, in a rare act of philanthropy towards any of her descendants, gave funding for Leopard's research project that would become her time machine. After the time machine was built, Unix hired her to travel through time and ensure survival of the Unix Family to maintain a stable time loop. Leopard-tan caught onto this, and didn't take kindly to the thought of being used. <br />
<br />
====With Linux====<br />
While originally convinced that the Linux-tans would displace and destroy her family (as her family had done to earlier generations of computers), sometime toward the end of the Unix Wars Unix-tan realized that the salvation of her people and way of life lies with the Linux family. She adopted [[Linux]]-tan into her society and since then the young open sourceress has risen high in the Unix Hierarchy ranks, becoming something of a ''right-hand man'' to Unix.<br />
<br />
Linux and Unix-tan's relationship stretches far beyond the professional, however. Since their first collaborations the two have been friends, slowly becoming best friends in the decades they've known each other. In various stories, there have been hints that the two are akin to soul-mates and that there are strong feelings for one another that go past "mere" friendship and into romantic territory. This has been confirmed in various storyline proposals by their original creators and should be considered canon. <br />
<br />
====Vintage OS-tans====<br />
Unix is generally compassionate toward the Vintage-tans. This is often explained as being due to some sense of regret for her displacement of the mainframe-tans that preceded her and whose livelihoods she (in part) ruined. As well, she has a general affection for computers less powerful and capable than herself and she enjoys making their lives better. <br />
<br />
==History and Background==<br />
====Birth and Early Life====<br />
Unix's origins trace back to the mid-1960s and Bell Labs' involvement in Project MAC, the project to build [[Multics]]-tan. In 1969 the project became too behind schedule and over-budget and Bell Labs withdrew support. However, a number of computer scientists decided to use the experience - and code - gained in the project and started work on an OS-tan of their own. She was built over the course of several months with the help of [[PDP-7]] and [[GCOS]]-tan and came to be known as UNICS, her name a deliberate pun on that of her ''mother's''. UNICS was originally curious about her origins but was ordered not to ask questions. Once she was mature enough, she was put to work filing patents in Bell Labs' offices and here discovered her connection to Multics-tan. Whenever she asked about Multics she was told unfavorable things about the woman: that she was set on conquering OS-tan society, that she was dangerous, mentally-unstable and had delusions of grandeur. These things weren't true, but it was enough to convince young Unix. <br />
<br />
GCOS-tan, stepsister and sworn enemy of Multics, further misled Unix in an attempt to goad her into assassinating her rival. She fed the young girl a steady stream of vitriol concerning Multics and eventually Unix was convinced that she alone could vanquish the "insane sorceress". Thus began months worth of attempts to physically injure, politically or socially undermine or outright kill Multics. <br />
<br />
Unix first tried eliciting the help of other like-minded OS-tans, but was rejected – the only thing worse than Multics, in their mind, was this unknown trying to stir up trouble. Disheartened she attempted attacking Multics by herself, but was easy defeated by the older woman's strength. Not able to match Multics in terms of power, she turned to scheming ingenuity to bring Multics down to her level; but the attacks continued to backfired and eventually, she was nearly killed by Multics out of spite. During this altercation a part of Multics psionic energy was transferred to Unix, who used those powers to successfully cut through Multics' defenses and brutally attack her. <br />
<br />
Outwardly, the attack seemed like a success: Unix gained magical ability while diminishing Multics' power, setting her sorcery back many years and almost certainly dooming her to a life of social near-triviality. But shame and regret welled up inside Unix almost immediately: she was horrified that she'd almost killed her mother and these new powers seemed like nothing but a reminder of what she had done. Likewise, she had two rather apparent physical reminders of the fight: the sceptre she'd stolen from Multics and a pair of large, feathery black wings growing from her back. While Unix had been born with the capacity for these avian features (evidenced by her owl ears), the magic she absorbed had awakened the growth of the wings. Unix was later able to find a spell to (non-permanently) hide the wings and lived with them hidden for many decades. <br />
<br />
====Rise to Power====<br />
In the 1970s Unix saw her first children created; among these, [[BSD | BSD]] and a panoply of lesser-known offspring. While Unix had originally been strongly anti-corporate and anti-proprietary – opting, instead, for a philosophy of freedom and self-determination – her company turned her slowly away from her bohemian roots and, seduced by the promise of greater power and money, she turned into a thoroughly capitalist businesswoman. She struck up a number of successful alliances with minicomputer-tans, most notably [[PDP-11]]-tan, and slowly became the minicomputer OS-tan of choice. This had several effect: The undermining of rival minicomputer OS-tans in favor of Unix and her family; the deterioration of Non-Unix computer communities (particularly, the various Elder Days Hacker Cultures best exemplified by those of MIT and Stanford); and the surge in popularity among minicomputer hardware-tans set back the advancement their larger cousins, the Mainframes. <br />
<br />
As Unix's power and influence grew, conservative and free-spirited OS-tans alike rallied against her; but it was too late, Unix was too powerful. She and her family destroyed many of their critics and demolished ancient and long-held customs and cultures across the land. <br />
<br />
====Unix Wars====<br />
'''See also: [[Timeline of The Unix Wars]]'''<br />
<br />
During the mid 1980s, infighting spread among Unix cultures in an attempt to secure factional supremacy and a unified society; this sparked the Unix Wars, years of relentless attrition that nearly destroyed the Unixes from within. [[FreeBSD | FreeBSD]], drafted into the war, defected to form her own faction; likewise, [[Plan 9]] – Unix's heir – abdicated the thrown. By the early 1990s, [[Linux | Linux]], a young but powerful Unix-like was universally loathed by the Unix-tans, who believed she would bring further instability – and a possible death blow – to their kind. Unlike the others, Unix saw Linux as their potential salvation; together they formed a mutually beneficial alliance that lasts to this day. Unix has returned to her roots for the most part and is happier because of it.<br />
<br />
====Post-War====<br />
<br />
==Theories and notes==<br />
<br />
See also:<br />
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix Wikipedia article on Unix]<br />
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy Wikipedia article on the Unix philosophy]<br />
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[[Category:Unix]][[Category:Historical]][[Category:Minicomputer]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=UNIX&diff=4421UNIX2015-07-02T16:27:25Z<p>Bella: </p>
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<div>{{WIP}}<br />
<br />
{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = BellLabsUnix.png<br />
<br />
|cname = Bell Labs Unix<br />
|alias = UNIX, UNICS<br />
|hname = Eunice Bell<br />
|debut = Feb 2007 (preconcept), Sep 2007 (finished)<br />
|height = 5'0" (153 cm)<br />
|haircolor= Very dark purple with purple highlights<br />
|eyecolor= Deep blue with vivid blue highlights<br />
|weapon = Fire magic, various sorcery techniques, metal staff<br />
|apfaction = [[Linux Unix Consortium]]<br />
|lineage= Unix (matriarch/founder)<br />
|rival= Various<br />
<br />
|osper = Bell Labs Unix<br />
|osdev = Bell Labs, ATT<br />
|reldate = Summer 1969<br />
|lastrel = Version 10, 1989<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Technical details==<br />
Unix was originally developed in 1969 by AT&T Bell Labs employees Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. It was originally developed to run on the PDP-7, a small and underpowered minicomputer. Because of its sparse development conditions, Unix was a radical departure from OS designs of the day; built to be small, flexible and highly portable. From the PDP-7 it was ported to the PDP-11 and in 1973 was rewritten entirely in C. AT&T had been forbidden to enter the computer industry by an anti-trust lawsuit, and thus couldn't sell Unix as a product; but this didn’t stop its creators from sending out Unix tapes and source code to those who asked. Because of this, Unix quickly caught on as an academia, with people the world over modifying and creating new versions.<br />
<br />
Bell Labs’ Unix had many research and academic versions released, Version 7 being considered the “last true (research) Unix”. Some of its more famous descendants include BSD, Plan 9, Solaris, AIX, and Mac OS X. It inspired the creation of countless more Unix-like OSes – Linux perhaps the most famous example.<br />
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The history of Unix traces back to Multics. The two OSes shared several developers, and in fact the “failure” of Multics inspired the creation of Unix. While Unix carries some traits inherited from Multics, it is the opposite in design and philosophy – Unix being simple and improvised, Multics complex and built with deliberate plans in mind.<br />
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==Character details==<br />
====Physical Design====<br />
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Unix-tan is depicted as a short, pale-skinned young woman, apparently matured to her mid-late teens in spite of being aged well past 40. She has long, near-black purple hair with purple highlights, usually worn loose although some depictions show her wearing a ponytail. A little above her humanoid ears, she has a pair of fluffy, dark gray horned owl ears. Her eyes are also owl-like - piercing, intimidating and inquisitive-looking, deep blue in color with electric blue highlights. She has aqua-colored Bell Laboratory logos implanted over her pupils (initially described by her concept artist, C-Chan, as being a "a quaint tribute to a harsher and savage era") and wears browline glasses. She usually dresses in simple monochrome-colored clothing, often being depicted in boots, a blazer, sweater-vest, shirt, small tie and pleated skirt with perforated "UNIX" accents or a plain, long-sleeved and knee-length black dress. Since the early 1990s she has been confined to a wheelchair and has been pictured both in an elaborate power wheelchair and a more portable manual one. <br />
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She is often shown holding a polished aluminum staff with a variety of Roman numerals inscribed into its surface. While it mostly functions as a sort of ceremonial sceptre, she is sometimes shown using it as a weapon. The numbers in its surface symbolize the various tenets of Unix Philosophy.<br />
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====Personality====<br />
Unix possesses a strong inborn intellect and has fantastic common sense and survival instincts. Naturally curious, she enjoys learning new things and busying her mind and is rarely seen without a book or two. Although she began life orphaned and destitute, she caught on as an academic system allowing her to attend classes at a number of universities and ultimately receive an excellent education. <br />
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She is magically-powerful enough to get her way by means of sorcery; however her shrewd and Machiavellian nature makes her disposed to using mind-games to enact her will. In fact, she is so skilled at manipulation that she can defeat rivals by using their own psychology against them or use masquerades to turn enemies into allies. She is often believed to be sociopathic or even ''monstrous'' because of these tendencies. Although she posseses a higher-than-average sense of self-preservation - bordering on selfishness - she is not without conscience and has shown regret for her past transgressions as well as compassion toward those in need. <br />
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Unix's value system has gone through a number of changes throughout her lifetime. She started off as a proponent of what would later be known as "free software" and (unwittingly) pioneered a sort of Open Source model. However, she slowly abandoned her early espousal of freedom and communality for the sake of making money and securing power and turned into a greedy industrialist for a time. But the Unix Wars made her reevaluate her morals and she has since returned to her early ethos - in the process, literally becoming an Open Source OS-tan. Throughout her life, she has cultivated and maintained a set of values known as ''Unix Philosophy''. Chief among these is the belief that simplicity is key and should take precedence over completeness, that change is inevitable and should be prepared for, that program-tans should maintain harmony with each other and be trained to do one thing and do it well among many others. This Unix Philosophy is practiced by many of her daughters and followers and is considered a cornerstone of their society.<br />
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Her emotions are notoriously unstable - she rarely hides or feigns her feelings and tends to speak whatever is on her mind. Due to this, she has a reputation for being temperamental and neurotic and there are numerous accounts of her lashing out violently when angered (with whacks from her staff or thrown objects favorite attacks of hers'). Her detractors point out this trait as evidence of underlying unreliability, while her proponents appreciate her honesty above all else. It should be known that Unix-tan appreciates honesty from her followers as well, and will not tolerate condescension or sycophantic behavior among them. Her gentler side is known by her friends, as well as the vintage-tans she helps to support at the [[Binteeji Renmei]].<br />
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===Family and relationships===<br />
====Her Descendants====<br />
Unix doesn't show much in the way of compassion towards her daughters. Unlike her attitude towards vintage OS-tans, she approaches her children with a Social Darwinist attitude, leaving them to fend for themselves so the strongest (or most innovative, or well-connected) reach the top of the family hierarchy, and the weaker ones fade into obscurity or die altogether. She believes that this natural-selection approach will make her family stronger, which it has to an extent, but weakened the family overall and further undermines their political stability. The most successful of her daughters got stronger after the Unix Wars, but destroyed the livelihoods - or even lives - of their less successful kin.<br />
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An exception to this attitude is the interest she showed in Leopard-tan when she was born; Leopard being the first Mac OSX version to be granted the Single Unix Specification. Knowing that she would become a time-traveler who would eagerly pledge loyalty to the Unix Family; UNIX, in a rare act of philanthropy towards any of her descendants, gave funding for Leopard's research project that would become her time machine. After the time machine was built, UNIX hired her to travel through time and ensure survival of the Unix Family to maintain a stable time loop. Leopard-tan caught onto this, and didn't take kindly to the thought of being used. <br />
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====With Linux====<br />
While originally convinced that the Linux-tans would displace and destroy her family (as she and her family had done to earlier generations of computers), sometime toward the end of the Unix Wars she realized that the salvation of Unixkind lies in the Linux family. She adopted [[Linux]]-tan into her clan and since then has risen high in the Unix Hierarchy ranks, becoming something of a ''right-hand man'' to Unix.<br />
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Linux and Unix-tan's relationship stretches far beyond the professional, however. Since their first collaborations the two have been friends, slowly becoming best friends in the decades they've known each other. In various stories, there have been hints that the two are something akin to soul-mates and that there are strong feelings for one another that go past "mere" friendship and into romantic territory. This has been confirmed in various storyline proposals by their original creators and should be considered canon. <br />
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====Vintage OS-tans====<br />
Unix is generally compassionate toward the Vintage-tans. This is often explained as being due to some sense of regret for her displacement of the mainframe-tans that preceded her and whose livelihoods she (in part) ruined. As well, she has a general affection for computers less powerful and capable than herself and she enjoys making their lives better. <br />
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==History and Background==<br />
====Birth and Early Life====<br />
Unix's origins trace back to the mid-1960s and Bell Labs' involvement in Project MAC, the project to build [[Multics]]-tan. In 1969 the project became too behind schedule and over-budget and Bell Labs withdrew support. However, a number of computer scientists decided to use the experience - and code - gained in the project and started work on an OS-tan of their own. She was built over the course of several months with the help of [[PDP-7]] and [[GCOS]]-tan and came to be known as UNICS, her name a deliberate pun on that of her ''mother's''. UNICS was originally curious about her origins but was ordered not to ask questions. Once she was mature enough, she was put to work filing patents in Bell Labs' offices and here discovered her connection to Multics-tan. Whenever she asked about Multics she was told unfavorable things about the woman: that she was set on conquering OS-tan society, that she was dangerous, mentally-unstable and had delusions of grandeur. These things weren't true, but it was enough to convince young Unix. <br />
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GCOS-tan, stepsister and sworn enemy of Multics, further misled Unix in an attempt to goad her into assassinating her rival. She fed the young girl a steady stream of vitriol concerning Multics and eventually Unix was convinced that she alone could vanquish the "insane sorceress". Thus began months worth of attempts to physically injure, politically or socially undermine or outright kill Multics. <br />
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Unix first tried eliciting the help of other like-minded OS-tans, but was rejected – the only thing worse than Multics, in their mind, was this unknown trying to stir up trouble. Disheartened she attempted attacking Multics by herself, but was easy defeated by the older woman's strength. Not able to match Multics in terms of power, she turned to scheming ingenuity to bring Multics down to her level; but the attacks continued to backfired and eventually, she was nearly killed by Multics out of spite. During this altercation a part of Multics psionic energy was transferred to Unix, who used those powers to successfully cut through Multics' defenses and brutally attack her. <br />
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Outwardly, the attack seemed like a success: Unix gained magical ability while diminishing Multics' power, setting her sorcery back many years and almost certainly dooming her to a life of social near-triviality. But shame and regret welled up inside Unix almost immediately: she was horrified that she'd almost killed her mother and these new powers seemed like nothing but a reminder of what she had done. Likewise, she had two rather apparent physical reminders of the fight: the sceptre she'd stolen from Multics and a pair of large, feathery black wings growing from her back. While Unix had been born with the capacity for these avian features (evidenced by her owl ears), the magic she absorbed had awakened the growth of the wings. Unix was later able to find a spell to (non-permanently) hide the wings and lived with them hidden for many decades. <br />
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====Rise to Power====<br />
In the 1970s Unix saw her first children created; among these, [[BSD | BSD]] and a panoply of lesser-known offspring. While Unix had originally been strongly anti-corporate and anti-proprietary – opting, instead, for a philosophy of freedom and self-determination – her company turned her slowly away from her bohemian roots and, seduced by the promise of greater power and money, she turned into a thoroughly capitalist businesswoman. She struck up a number of successful alliances with minicomputer-tans, most notably [[PDP-11]]-tan, and slowly became the minicomputer OS-tan of choice. This had several effect: The undermining of rival minicomputer OS-tans in favor of Unix and her family; the deterioration of Non-Unix computer communities (particularly, the various Elder Days Hacker Cultures best exemplified by those of MIT and Stanford); and the surge in popularity among minicomputer hardware-tans set back the advancement their larger cousins, the Mainframes. <br />
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As Unix's power and influence grew, conservative and free-spirited OS-tans alike rallied against her; but it was too late, Unix was too powerful. She and her family destroyed many of their critics and demolished ancient and long-held customs and cultures across the land. <br />
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====Unix Wars====<br />
'''See also: [[Timeline of The Unix Wars]]'''<br />
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During the mid 1980s, infighting spread among Unix cultures in an attempt to secure factional supremacy and a unified society; this sparked the Unix Wars, years of relentless attrition that nearly destroyed the Unixes from within. [[FreeBSD | FreeBSD]], drafted into the war, defected to form her own faction; likewise, [[Plan 9]] – Unix's heir – abdicated the thrown. By the early 1990s, [[Linux | Linux]], a young but powerful Unix-like was universally loathed by the Unix-tans, who believed she would bring further instability – and a possible death blow – to their kind. Unlike the others, Unix saw Linux as their potential salvation; together they formed a mutually beneficial alliance that lasts to this day. Unix has returned to her roots for the most part and is happier because of it.<br />
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====Post-War====<br />
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==Theories and notes==<br />
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See also:<br />
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix Wikipedia article on Unix]<br />
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy Wikipedia article on the Unix philosophy]<br />
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[[Category:Unix]][[Category:Historical]][[Category:Minicomputer]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=OS-tan_Human_Names&diff=4407OS-tan Human Names2014-08-05T03:08:28Z<p>Bella: /* List of proposed names */</p>
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<div>{{WIP}}<br />
A very basic table of nicknames and proposed human names for OS-tans. All of these names are fanon at most, though the nicknames for the canon Windows-tans are canon, using them as the OS-tans' real names isn't necessarily. <br />
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In recent years, the OS-tan verse has become westernized in much of the fanon, with many of the new OS-tans having only western names. This seems to make the Japanese names and cultural practices of the Windows-tans appear out of place, but are kept for the sake of tradition and the OS-tan phenomenon's Japanese roots. As a compromise between the Japanese roots, and the more Western-style fanon, it has been proposed to try and come up with both Western and Japanese names for OS-tans whenever possible, which ever one being used (if at all), being up to individual preference, and why not? The OS-tan verse setting is already portrayed as anachronistic, why not a cultural fusion too? <br />
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==List of proposed names==<br />
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{|cellpadding=2 border=1 style= "background:#EFF5FB;"<br />
|- style="background:#AFAFE9;"<br />
!scope="col"|'''Character'''<br />
|scope="col"|'''Western name'''<br />
|scope="col"|'''Japanese name'''<br />
|scope="col"|'''Common nickname(s)'''<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="4" | '''Windows-tans'''<br />
|-<br />
|[[Windows 1.0]]|| ||Kazue Madobe ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Windows 2.0]]|| ||Niiko Madobe|| <br />
|-<br />
|[[Windows 3.1]]|| || || Baba-chan, Baba-loli<br />
|-<br />
|[[Windows 95]]|| || ||95-neechan, Chicago<br />
|-<br />
|[[Windows 98]]|| ||Hacchan Madobe ||Memphis<br />
|-<br />
|[[Windows 98SE]]|| ||Secchan Madobe||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Windows 2000]]|| ||Nisen Madobe||NT 5.0, 2K-san<br />
|-<br />
|XP Professional || ||Saseko Madobe ||Pekepi, Whistler<br />
|-<br />
|XP Home|| ||Homeko Madobe ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Windows Vista]]|| ||Vistake, Visbou, Chivistan Madobe||Vistan<br />
|-<br />
|[[Windows 7]]||n/a? ||Nanami Madobe ||Win7, NT 6.1<br />
|-<br />
|[[Windows 8]]||n/a? ||Yu & Ai Madobe, Aya Madobe ||Win8, 8-tan<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="4" | '''Apple-tans'''<br />
|-<br />
|[[Apple I]]||(none yet?)||Kiboriko Ringo ||I-okaasama<br />
|-<br />
|[[Apple II]]||(none yet)||Shiroyuki Ringo ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Apple III]]||Sara Appletree ||Sara Ringo ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Apple Lisa]]|| Lisa Appletree || Lisa Ringo ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[GS/OS]]||Phoenix Appletree||Phoenix Ringo||Cortland, IIGS<br />
|-<br />
|[[Macintosh System 1]]||(none yet) ||Ichigo Fuji ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Macintosh System 2]]||Nina Macintosh||Nina Fuji ||Ahiru-chan<br />
|-<br />
|[[Macintosh System 3]]||Hisca Macintosh||Hinoe, Mitsuko Fuji ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Macintosh System 3.4]]||(none yet)||Sayoko Fuji||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Macintosh System 4]]||(none yet)||Yoko, Shizune Fuji||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Macintosh System 5]]||Phantom Macintosh||(none yet) ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Macintosh System 6]]||Antares Macintosh ||(none yet) ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Macintosh System 7]]||(none yet)||Pleiades, Subaru Fuji||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Macintosh System 7.5]]||(none yet)||Kapone Fuji||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Mac OS 8]]||Veronica Macintosh||Tempo Fuji||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Mac OS 9]]||Sonata Macintosh||Sonata Fuji||<br />
|-<br />
|[[OSX Snow Leopard]]||Snow||Yuki||Full name is Snow Leopard, but goes by "Snow"<br />
|-<br />
! colspan="4" | '''Other OS-tans''' (to be sorted later)<br />
|-<br />
|[[UNIX|Bell Labs UNIX]]||Eunice Bell || ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[BESYS]]||Bethany Murray || ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[BSD]]||Lilith Joy|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[BUIC]]||Becca Forester|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Commodore VIC-20]]||Victoria|| ||Vixen, Volkscomputer<br />
|-<br />
|[[CRAY-1]]||Corina Seymour || || <br />
|-<br />
|[[CTSS]] ||Tess Corbató || || <br />
|-<br />
|[[Mertvaya Ruka]]||[[Mertvaya Ruka]] || ||Ruka<br />
|-<br />
|[[FLAC]]||Florence Patrick|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[FUJIC]]||||Fujiko Okazaki ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[GCOS]]||Glenda Oliver|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[GENIAC]]||Jeanie Berkeley|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Harvard Mark I]]||Marcie Aiken|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Harvard Mark II]]||Mary Aiken|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Harvard Mark III]]||Addie Aiken|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[ITS]]||Izzy Knight|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[KolibriOS]]|| ||Sachi Hachidori ||Kori-chan<br />
|-<br />
||[[Linux]]||Lina Torvalds||Lina ||GNU/Linux <br />
|-<br />
|[[LINC]]||Dr.Lincoln|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Lunar Linux]]||Luna Moonowl||Tsukibukuro (or Tsukiko) Mahoumoto<br />
|-<br />
|[[MCP]]||Margaret Burroughs|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[MenuetOS]]||Minna Turjanmaa || ||MeOS<br />
|-<br />
|[[Multics]] ||Minerva Corbató || || <br />
|-<br />
|[[VMS|OpenVMS]]||Vanessa Cutler|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[OS/8]]||Octavia DeCastro|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[PDP-1]] ||Penelope Olsen|| || <br />
|-<br />
|[[PDP-8]]||Kate DeCastro|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[QNX]]||Quinn X. Dodge|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Rainbow 100]]||Rain Decker || ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[RSTS]]||Ristess Witcraft|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[RSX]]||Risa Cutler || ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[RT-11]]||Rita Bell || ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[SAGE]]||Gina Forrester || ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Source Mage]]|| ||Kurohane Mahoumoto ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[VAXELN]]||Ellen Cutler || ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[VME]]||Vera Boys|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[VMS]]||Vanessa Cutler|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[WAITS]]||Willow Stanford|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Whirlwind]]||Winifred Forrester || ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Plan 9]]||Glenda Bell|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[WWMCCS]]||Wimmex || ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Xenix]]||Xenia || ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[ORDVAC]]||Olive von Neuman || ||<br />
|-<br />
!colspan="4" | '''OS/software/hardware-kuns'''<br />
|-<br />
|[[Emacs]]||Evan MacIntyre|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[FASTRAND]]||Randall Sperry "Randy" || ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[IBM 728]]||Ivan van der Zee|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[KRONOS]]||Konrad Fawley|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[QED]]||Ted Fredericks|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Selectric]]||Samuel Almächtig|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[RED]]||Red || ||<br />
|-<br />
|[[Vi]]||Victor Joy|| ||<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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==How to add names to the table==<br />
===Table code===<br />
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|- style="background:#AFAFE9;"<br />
!scope="col"|'''Character'''<br />
|scope="col"|'''Western name'''<br />
|scope="col"|'''Japanese name'''<br />
|scope="col"|'''Common nickname(s)'''<br />
|-<br />
|character goes here||western name||japanese name ||other nicknames<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
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===Add an entry===<br />
Look at this sample row:<br />
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|character goes here||western name||japanese name ||other nicknames<br />
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The first pipe "|" marks the start of the new row, and because scope="col" is used for each column, the other cells in the row use double pipes "||". The last entry goes to the right of the last double pipes, and is closed off with a <br />
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<pre><br />
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right below the row.<br />
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Insert it into the section you are looking for. <br />
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==Notes about names==<br />
===Windows-tans===<br />
Since the debut of the semi-official Windows 7 mascot, Nanami Madobe, some fans have decided to incorporate Madobe (meaning "by the window") as the last name for all Windows-tans.<br />
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===Mac-tans===<br />
Their proposed last name of Fuji for their Japanese names refers to the Japanese Fuji apple.<br />
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[[Category:Theories]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=MIT_Society&diff=4406MIT Society2014-07-24T16:46:13Z<p>Bella: </p>
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{{Factioninfobox<br />
|name = MIT Society<br />
|image = <br />
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|founder = [[Whirlwind]]<br />
|leader = None<br />
|matriarch = [[Whirlwind]], [[TX-0]] and [[CTSS]] are prominent figures<br />
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|ftype = Academic society<br />
|niche = Academia, science, research, defense<br />
|territory = <br />
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|established = 1940s<br />
|dissolution = Ongoing<br />
|predecessor = None <br />
|successor = Various minicomputer factions, notably [[DEC Military | DEC]]; widespread impact throughout OS-tandom. <br />
}}<br />
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==HIstory==<br />
====Early====<br />
Though bloodlines existed within it, MIT's computer culture was less a family and more a loose affiliation of OS-tans bound by organizational, political and regional ties. Though evidence exists that computer-tans of some stripe existed previous, Whirlwind-tan is the first documented MIT computer and helped to establish traditions followed by subsequent MIT systems, in particular the focus on bridging the gap between humans and computer-tans via interactive computing. Along with directly influencing the culture through her research and teaching, Whirlwind made a mark through her three children, [[SAGE]], [[TX-0]] and [[PDP-1]], and her adopted daughter, [[CTSS]], each of whom influenced MIT culture in their own way.<br />
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*SAGE (born ca. 1951) inadvertently helped establish MIT's Lincoln Laboratory and their tradition of working with the government and military on a variety of computing projects;<br />
*TX-0 (born 1955) established the tradition of "small computing" at MIT, in the process sparking the rise of the minicomputer race (DEC in particular), as well as contributing heavily to the creation of the Hacker Culture;<br />
*PDP-1 (born 1959) followed in her elder sister's footsteps and played a founding role in the creation of the DEC Faction;<br />
*CTSS (born 1961) was the foundress of MIT's OS-tan lineage, in particular their tradition of powerful timesharing OS-tans.<br />
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Originating from Lincoln Laboratory, [[LINC]]-tan was important both inside and outside of MIT (being one of the founding figures of the minicomputer race, she later joined PDP-1 in the DEC Faction). In the mid-1960s, a number of OS-tans rose to prominence at MIT, most notably CTSS, her daughter [[Multics]] and her pupils [[ITS]] and [[CPCMS | CP/CMS]]. They were among the first "modern" operating systems and signaled a permanent shift from primitive batch-processing systems and toward more highly-capable, personable and magically-adept timesharing OS-tans.<br />
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====Contemporary Developments====<br />
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==Culture==<br />
====Beliefs and values====<br />
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==See also:==<br />
[[DEC Military]]<br />
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[[Category:Factions]][[Category:MIT]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=EXEC&diff=4405EXEC2014-07-12T01:19:09Z<p>Bella: </p>
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<div>{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = EXEC.jpg<br />
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|cname = EXEC-tan<br />
|alias = EXEC II, III, UNIVAC 1<br />
|hname = Esther Sperry<br />
|debut = Jul 2008<br />
|height = 163 cm (5'4")<br />
|haircolor= Dark purple<br />
|eyecolor= Light blue<br />
|apfaction = [[Binteeji Renmei]]<br />
|lineage= UNIVAC<br />
<br />
|osper = EXEC, all UNIVAC computers since the UNIVAC 1<br />
|osdev = UNIVAC, Computer Sciences Corporation<br />
|reldate = 1951 (UNIVAC 1), 1962 (EXEC)<br />
|lastrel = circa mid 1980's<br />
}}<br />
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==Character details==<br />
This character represents both the UNIVAC line of computers dating back to the [[wikipedia: UNIVAC_I | UNIVAC I]] in 1951 up to the , and the [[wikipedia: EXEC_II| EXEC]] operating system, even though the hardware and OS lines debuted years apart. She changed her name to EXEC-tan with the EXEC OS's debut in 1962.<br />
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EXEC is represented as a purple-haired woman in a Renaissance-style dress in the general colors of the UNIVAC machines. She has a lot of ruby jewelry which imitates the round, red lights and dials. Her hair is meters long and partly braided in a ponytail. Its extreme length is symbolic the high complexity of the UNIVAC machines. That symbolism is a bit outdated now since mainframe-tan characters even older than her, and representing even larger systems have been created, but this still remains.<br />
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Her hair cannot be cut because it is an extension of her brain and getting it cut would be painful and damaging to her intelligence, reflexes and other functions. To say the very least, it was a very unusual design quirk on the behalf of her creators. Cutting it short or shaving it off would kill her. And since her company has been long-gone, taken with them the only means to perform any kind of corrective surgery to fix her hair, she has to stay like that forever. <br />
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She is much too slow and old to handle basic tasks but is very kind, calm, wise and able to provide the voice of reason for the Vintage-tans she lives with. She was melancholy and felt like a useless burden because of her severe limitations but has cheered up since befriending GENIAC-tan, who grew up in the same time period as her (able to relate to her experiences) and bound by strings and limitations of her own. <br />
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She gladly volunteered to be [[GENIAC | GENIAC-tan's]] caregiver, simply needing to hold her handle and keep her company. And because of EXEC-tan's patience and motherly demeanor, she is also able to easily calm down GENIAC-tan and help her overcome her phobias. In return, EXEC-tan has cheered up, feeling useful and having a friend she can relate to.<br />
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==History and background==<br />
She was created as purely hardware-based at first, since there were no OSes in existence when she was created. Her culture and upbringing were isolated, even by her contemporaries' standards then, but she quickly became well-known when her calculations were shown to correctly predict important outcomes -referencing the UNIVAC I correctly predicting the 1952 US election-. In 1962, she was cybernetically enhanced to become a hardware-OS hybrid, and changed her name to reflect this transformation.<br />
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EXEC was in service for close to 35 years before being discontinued. She has a much more advanced descendant, [[wikipedia:Unisys_OS_2200_operating_system | OS 2200]], who was born circa 1967. She was jealous of her descendant for not having the technical constraints she has, but over time they got along. Her mandatory retirement came in 1986, when OS2200-tan relocated her to an isolated tower to be looked after by a few caregivers, because as oppressive as that was, OS2200-tan her staff didn't want EXEC-tan to suffer as a wanderer or death due to obsolescence, and still believed she was socially superior to those minicomputer and home computer-tans, so she was not to mingle with them.<br />
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During the next nearly 20 years, during that time many major events including the deaths of some of her colleagues, the Unix Wars, the OS Wars, and founding of the Binteeji Renmei all passed her by. But she wasn't totally isolated from other computer-tans, since occasionally she was able to meet several of the 'lesser' computer-tans and invited them over in secrecy. This went on for years before getting caught. At first, her staff of caregivers were disappointed or outraged that EXEC was breaking a major social rule, but seeing that she was happier with her friends, her staff let her go with them and join the Binteeji Renmei.<br />
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[[Category:Historical]][[Category:Mainframe]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=Multics&diff=4404Multics2014-07-10T21:53:11Z<p>Bella: </p>
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<div>{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = multicsavi2.png<br />
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|cname = Multics<br />
|alias = Multiplexed Information and Computing Service<br />
|hname = Minerva Corbató<br />
|debut = Oct. 2007<br />
|height = 5'7" (170cm)<br />
|haircolor= Dark plum<br />
|eyecolor= Cornflower blue<br />
|weapon = Psionic forcefields, labyrinths<br />
|apfaction = [[MIT Society]]<br />
|lineage= CTSS<br />
|rival= GECOS, TSS/360, Unix<br />
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|osper = Multics<br />
|osdev = MIT, Bell Labs, GE, Honeywell<br />
|reldate = Development started in 1964; first commercial release in 1969 <br />
|lastrel = Circa 1985<br />
}}<br />
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==Technical details==<br />
Multics is an ambitious OS developed jointly by Bell Labs (dropped out of the project in 1969), General Electric (later Honeywell) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and funded largely by DARPA. The goal of this collaboration, dubbed Project MAC, was to create an operating system that worked as a water or electric utility does; running on a central mainframe which thousands of users would have access to. Because of this, stability and security were of the utmost importance.<br />
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Built on and hosted by machines running CTSS, development of Multics began in 1964; but a fully working system was not released until 1969. <br />
Multics was plagued by complexity from the start, and at many points became almost too expensive and difficult to continue development. While largely a commercial disappointment, Multics implemented many novel ideas which went on to influence the other OSes of its time, most notably Unix. Many of Multics' features can be found in popular operating systems today.<br />
In November of 2007, Multics' source code was made open by Groupe Bull; while machines capable of running Multics are long gone, a project to build a Honeywell 6180 (DPS-8) emulator is underway.<br />
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==Character details==<br />
====Physical====<br />
[[File:Multicsavi.png|left|thumb|100px|Multics-tan with her sceptre]] Multics-tan is depicted as a mature woman, mid-to-late 20s in apparent age, a little above average height with shapely hips, a curved waist and modest chest. She has long, slightly-waved dark plum hair, cornflower blue eyes and wings covered with mottled gray and black feathers. In the prime of her life, she often dressed in Rococo-inspired gowns, with deep necklines, multiple layers, corsets, hoop-skirts, bustles and petticoats common occurrences in her wardrobe. She is often depicted as having multiple piercings in both ears, wearing lipstick and eye-makeup and copious amounts of gold jewelry. Post-revival Multics dresses simply - usually being depicted in a sleeveless long off-white sundress and sporting henna-like adornments on her hands, feet and forehead. <br />
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A recurring theme in her design (both past and present) is rings and mazes, symbolic of Multics' ringed security features. Most notable among these being a round labyrinth-shaped tattoo on the upper part of her chest. In her youth, she owned a ornately decorated metal sceptre, however it was taken from her by Unix. <br />
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[[File:MulitcsAltColor.jpg|right|thumb|100px|Alternate color scheme]]''(There is an alternate color scheme for Multics based on her widely-accepted animal anthropomorphism, the bald eagle. This color scheme calls for gold eyes and dark brown wings.)'' <br />
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====Personality====<br />
Although she isn't particularly well-educated compared to the majority of her MIT-tan peers - her academic growth having taken something of a backseat to her cultural and magical development - Multics is intelligent, naturally curious and loves enriching her mind through a number of intellectual pursuits. She is particularly fond of social sciences and enjoys studying international cultures, history and learning languages, and she is fluent in English, French and Latin and familiar with German and Japanese as well. Perhaps stemming from her own avian nature, ornithology is major interest of hers and she enjoys watching birds. She is also fond of aesthetics and design and loves to create and appreciate beautiful things. <br />
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Multics' personality is complex enough to defy any sort of easy classification. She is valiant, just, loyal and ambitious to a fault, but is also habitually-hedonistic, prone to excess and arrogance (particularly in her early adulthood). Her temperament largely depends on her company - friends describe her as affectionate, committed and helpful, while enemies are treated to a decidedly cold and uncaring side of her personality. For the most part, she conducts herself with tact and courtesy, and her commanding nature and natural leadership skills gained her a devoted following - one she managed to maintain even past her death. She is rather notorious for putting on a "good face" no matter what, and tries to hide any feelings of melancholy or fear at all costs. <br />
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====Powers====<br />
For the most part, Multics' ''raison d'être'' was being a sorceress - to the point where her ability to perform sorcery was given precedence over her physical and emotional health, comfort and safety, among other basic necessities. Because of this, Multics viewed her magical abilities as something of a curse, albeit one necessary to her livelihood and survival. <br />
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In addition to possessing the typical sorcery of a timesharing-system-tan, Multics-tan practiced a number of experimental magics; in particular, she possessed powerful psionic abilities and was skilled in the creation of energy forcefields. In its most simple form, this includes the creation of basic barriers and at its most complex, extremely large labyrinth structures designed to confuse and defeat would-be attackers. In addition to keeping herself safe from attack, she uses these powers to protect valuable information and data. This was a valuable power, one that found her numerous employment opportunities in corporate and government sectors.<br />
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Although her powers waxed and waned throughout her life, she maintained a high level of magical ability until her death. <br />
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==History and background==<br />
====Origins====<br />
Multics was born in 1964, the culmination of extensive planning and research into creating a powerful OS-tan whose sorcery could reliably serve large numbers of users. Her development was originally supervised by a ''triumvirate'' of institutions - MIT, Bell Labs and GE - with large numbers of programmers and engineers from each organization. However, MIT was responsible for the majority of her design and education, as well as providing her a home. Genetically-speaking, Multics was derived from [[CTSS]]-tan, who served as a mother, caretaker and teacher throughout her youth. <br />
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In the mid-1960s, Multics traveled to Bell Labs to receive tutoring from [[BESYS]]-tan. This arrangement ended sooner than expected, as BESYS resented Multics' "displacement" of her and Multics was generally petulant toward her tutor. Some sources suggest a code connection between Multics and Besys-tan as well, although this remains speculative for the most part.<br />
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Although Multics was "born complex" - with magical and defensive powers usually only obtained through extensive instruction - her body was notoriously weak and prone to illness and she was chronically depressed throughout her youth. From around 1967 to her debut in 1970, she underwent training in a number of highly advanced and experimental forms of sorcery and the physical, psychological and magical strain of this training continued to wear on her health. By the year 1968, the project was thoroughly over-budget, behind schedule and Multics hadn't yet developed the powers expected of her. Her programmers and engineers became restless and discouraged and there was talk of cutting off funding, abandoning and the near-certain death of Multics. However, the relentless efforts of a small-but-loyal group of followers saved her and by the next year her health and powers began to rebound. <br />
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In the spring of 1969, Bell Labs dropped support for Multics and absconded with sections of her code. This was decidedly unfortunate turn of events, as it directly led to the creation of a modified clone - [[UNIX]]-tan - several months later. <br />
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====Conflict with Unix====<br />
By the fall of the same year, Multics debuted in good health and near-completely matured. Her success had gained her a dedicated following but also created enemies. [[GCOS | GECOS]]-tan, who was Multics' step-sister (via GE) and had served as her caretaker, began to see Multics as a potential threat to her livelihood if not her life. Believing UNIX to be the only person strong enough to defeat Multics, GECOS-tan mentored the girl and conditioned her to hate and fear Multics. This plan worked and throughout the early 1970s Multics faced continual failed attacks by Unix. While she had the power to defeat Unix, Multics chose not to, perhaps out of sympathy for her "daughter". <br />
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In 1971 their conflict came to a head. During a fight, Multics nearly killed Unix, and upon regaining consciousness Unix besieged Multics' defenses in a fit of berserker-like rage, absorbing a large portion of her mother's psionic energy and using it to break through her forcefields and unleash a direct physical assault. This attack left Multics with a broken wing and stripped of a large portion of her magical powers.<br />
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====Prime====<br />
The 1970s and 1980s were the prime of Multics' life. In the 70s, she continued work for MIT, collecting and keeping information, helping in social science, graphical formatting and networking projects and continuing her studies of and development of sorcery techniques. During this time, she began to take over some of her now-ailing mother's workload. <br />
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In 1970 she began working with the US Air Force at Rome AFB, a sort of exchange deal with her providing computing services and the military teaching her ever-more advanced self-defense techniques. Although the majority of her work there remains classified, it is known that during this time she met [[SAGE]]-tan. While their relationship got off to a rocky start, the two eventually started a friendship that lasted into the modern day. <br />
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In 1971 she joined the ARPANet, a burgeoning network system that incorporated many high-profile -tans of the day, and in '73, Multics debuted commercially and began securing many territories around the world. In the same year, CTSS-tan passed away, but little has been documented about Multics' reaction to the loss of her beloved mother. <br />
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Although she spent more and more time away from home, her work in Cambridge continued. United by their similar personalities, in the mid-70s she and [[Emacs]]-kun struck up a friendship and began working together. This turned out to be a symbiotic arrangement - Emacs becoming Multics' go-to text editor, and Multics teaching Emacs new forms of sorcery that he would use well into the modern day. Later on the two started dating and maintained a relationship well into the 1980s. [http://ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,1539.msg129798.html#msg129798]<br />
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The 1970s weren't all positive, however. Her nemesis, GECOS-tan, launched a new round of attacks, using her political and social power within the Honeywell faction to create doubt about and stir up sentiments against Multics. In spite of GECOS' primitive methods of sorcery and relative powerlessness against the rival mainframe-tans of the era, she was able to capture the majority of support within the faction and very nearly have Multics-tan overthrown on the spot. However, a small group of Multicians were able to stave off the deposal and secure their mistress' future, at least for awhile. <br />
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During the late 1970s and early 80s, Multics made contact with the Cray family and [[CDC Faction]]. In 1978 she traveled to the University of Calgary to take over a post being kept by [[KRONOS]]-kun and in the same year was hired to be a servant for the venerable [[CRAY-1]]-tan. Although their egos clashed initially, they eventually came to respect each other and collaborate on a number of projects. In the 80s, she became especially popular in France and resided in the nation on-and-off throughout the decade. <br />
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In 1985, Multics-tan achieved a B2 security rating, one of the highest security ratings of any OS-tan of the time. <br />
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====Decline and death====<br />
Although Multics continued to be successful throughout the 1980s, she was effectively laid off by Honeywell in 1985. While this was not considered a greatly surprising move - given their past attempts to cut off her funding in favor of GECOS-tan - it still sent shockwaves throughout the Multician community as their leader was seriously jeopardized for the first time in close to a decade. Thus began many attempts to rescue Multics from her inevitable demise. Many Multics users demanded continued support for leader, and when their pleas were refused they defected to other camps. <br />
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Others attempts were made: Multics sought to free herself from her attachments to Honeywell so she could form her own company, others, sensing the soon-to-be-demise of the Big Iron mainframe culture, sought ways to port her to new, more contemporary architectures. For a time, Multics tried to obtain asylum with the CDC faction, although the negations broke down quickly. <br />
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Her 1988 banishment from MIT was, in many ways, the nail in the proverbial coffin. Exiled to a few remaining sites, she lived the rest of her life in relative obscurity, with Halifax, Nova Scotia being her final residence. In 2000, Multics was tracked down by Unix and the two reconciled shortly before her death. [http://ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,466.msg38753.html#msg38753]<br />
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====Resurrection====<br />
In 2007, Multics-tan was brought back from the dead. The circumstances of her resurrection remains unclear - while it was originally believed that the necromancer [[Plan 9]]-tan revived her at the behest of the Multicians, there is evidence against this theory - most notably, the fact that Multics was brought back with full mental faculties and free will, something not usually seen in Plan 9-tan's revived subjects. <br />
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Recently, it has been speculated that SAGE-tan was responsible for Multics' resurrection. Supporters of this theory point to SAGE's apparent ability to cheat death (having outlived the destruction of her installations for over 30 years), as well as SAGE-tan's affection for Multics. [http://ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,1539.msg129798.html#msg129798]<br />
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Multics was reborn without any sort of magical or defensive abilities and with her riches long gone, and by all means now leads a modest lifestyle. However, she was also reborn as an Open Source OS-tan, fulfilling her lifelong dream of being able to be free of having others control her destiny. She now resides at the [[Binteeji Renmei]], a sanctuary for vintage and retired OS-tans. <br />
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==Theories and notes==<br />
*Multics may have used up a large portion of her ancestor's life-force in order to jump-start her own [http://ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,1539.msg127745.html#msg127745]<br />
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==Fanworks==<br />
====Early drawings====<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-6892 The first Multics-tan sketch]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-6891 "Young Multics-tan"]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-6900 "Multics v. Unix"]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-6949 First finished image of Multics-tan]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-7231 "O Fortuna" - Multics-tan portrait]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Multics-sama-and-Unix-sama-104126301 Multics and Unix portrait]<br />
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===Contemporary drawings===<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Autumn-311548638 "Autumn", Multics and Emacs portrait]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Rococo-Multics-Colored-212308400 "Rococo Multics" - featuring an alternative color map]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Multics-alternate-color-map-249121354 Comparison of classic and alternate color maps]<br />
*[http://choco-la-te.deviantart.com/art/Bella-s-B-day-Present-2011-194545992 Multics-tan/Panty and Stocking parody]<br />
*[http://kattlanna.deviantart.com/art/Happily-ever-after-164291059 "Happily Ever After"]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Antithesis-142049059 "Antithesis"]<br />
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===Fiction===<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/Multics-sama-and-MTS-tan-148864468 "Multics-sama and MTS-tan"]<br />
*[bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/OC-Meme-OS-tan-Edition-153317602 Character interview featuring Multics-tan]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Ringmistress-214815629 "Ringmistress"]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Unix-tan-fanfic-pt-I-164941135 "Unix-tan Fanfic, pt. I"]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Unix-tan-fanfic-pt-II-168520462 "Unix-tan Fanfic, pt. II"]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/OS-tans-on-a-Ship-173009589 "OS-tans on a Ship"]<br />
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"Dirty Water" ''(Multics-tan featured in parts 4 and 5)''<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/Dirty-Water-Pt-1-151306482 Pt. 1]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/Dirty-Water-Pt-2-151306625 Pt. 2]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/Dirty-Water-Pt-3-151306781 Pt. 3]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/Dirty-Water-Pt-4-151306844 Pt. 4]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/Dirty-Water-Pt-5-151306914 Pt. 5]<br />
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"Reunion"<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/Reunion-Pt-1-165986880 Part 1]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/Reunion-Pt-2-165987523 Part 2]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/Reunion-Pt-3-166384407 Part 3]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/Reunion-Pt-4-166983384 Part 4]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/Reunion-Pt-5-169687916 Part 5]<br />
<br />
"What's For Dinner"<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/What-s-For-Dinner-Pt-1-182016623 Part 1]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/What-s-for-Dinner-Pt-2-182017160 Part 2]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/What-s-for-Dinner-Pt-3-182018278 Part 3]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/What-s-for-Dinner-Pt-4-182018686 Part 4]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/What-s-for-Dinner-Pt-5-182019485 Part 5]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/What-s-for-Dinner-Pt-6-182019676 Part 6]<br />
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[[Category:Mainframe]][[Category: Historical]][[Category:MIT]][[Category:OpenSource]][[Category:Binteeji Renmei]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=MTS&diff=4403MTS2014-07-10T21:52:48Z<p>Bella: </p>
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<div>{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = Mtsavi.jpg<br />
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|cname = Michigan Terminal System<br />
|alias = MTS<br />
|hname = Melissa Feierabend<br />
|debut = Late 2009<br />
|height = 6'2"<br />
|haircolor= Blonde<br />
|eyecolor= Various shades of green<br />
|weapon = NA<br />
|apfaction = [[Mainframe Guild]]<br />
|lineage= IBM Mainframe<br />
|rival= DEC-tans<br />
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|osper = Michigan Terminal System<br />
|osdev = University of Michigan and Others<br />
|reldate = Circa 1967<br />
|lastrel = v. 6.0, 1988<br />
}}<br />
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==Technical details==<br />
Originally developed by the University of Michigan for the IBM System/360 and /370-series mainframes (and other compatible computers), MTS is one of the earliest timesharing OSes. It continued to be developed by a consortium of eight universities in Canada, the US and UK for a period of 33 years. <br />
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==Character details==<br />
MTS-tan is portrayed as a tall, heavyset woman with long blonde hair worn pulled back from her face and irregularly-colored green eyes. Her unusual attraction to flashy and sparkly things is apparent in her choice of dress; she often wears elaborate outfits. Even when she doesn't, she'll always have a few items of gaudy jewelry on - her favorite piece being a green light-bulb necklace.<br />
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In addition to being unusually tall, MTS-tan has the ability to absorb heat from her environment - a power that gives her an exceptionally high body temperature. As such, she is prone to heat exhaustion in warmer temperatures. She loves winter and cold weather, and tries to limit her world-travels to cool locations. She is especially fond of the American Midwest, Canada and the United Kingdom. <br />
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MTS-tan speaks with a heavy nothern-Midwestern/Candian accent and has an enthusiastic and easily-excitable personality - she's notoriously loud, talkative and prone to distraction, especially when it comes to bright or shiny objects. Her warm personality has made her universally liked by the people she works with, so her strange traits tend to be treated less as shortcomings and more as endearing quirks. A bibliophile, she loves reading and paper products, and is also a rabid fan of the UM Wolverines. <br />
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==History and Background==<br />
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==Relationships and Family==<br />
====Multics====<br />
MTS-tan is a distant relative of [[Multics]]-tan and greatly admires Multics - an admiration she often expresses physically. Multics is abashed by MTS' treatment of her and views MTS as something of a strange country-cousin. <br />
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====KRONOS====<br />
Kronos-kun and MTS-tan dated for a time, but they eventually broke up because of personality differences - KRONOS being quite stoic and calm, and MTS being touchy, warm and lively. <br />
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====DEC-tans====<br />
MTS is antagonistic toward the DEC-tans.<br />
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==Fanworks==<br />
====Artwork====<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Mittans-285338433 "Mittans" MTS and BUIC-tan portrait]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Chicken-Fight-311545541 "Chicken Fight", MTS, KRONOS, NOS/VE and MCP sketch]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Huggin-Cousins-149981115 "Hugging Cousins" MTS and Multics drawing]<br />
====Writings====<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/Multics-sama-and-MTS-tan-148864468 "Multics-sama and MTS-tan"]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/OS-Interviews-Pt-1-152851849 "OS-tan Interviews Pt. 1"] (Features MTS-tan)<br />
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[[Category:Historical]][[Category:Mainframe]][[Category:IBM]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=File:Mtsavi.jpg&diff=4402File:Mtsavi.jpg2014-07-10T21:52:00Z<p>Bella: </p>
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<div></div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=TX-0&diff=4401TX-02014-07-10T21:48:17Z<p>Bella: </p>
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<div>{{WIP}}<br />
{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = tx0avi.png<br />
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|cname = TX-0<br />
|alias = Tixo, Transistorized Experimental computer zero<br />
|hname = <br />
|debut = 2012<br />
|height = 5'3"<br />
|haircolor= Brown<br />
|eyecolor= Green<br />
|weapon = N/A<br />
|apfaction = [[MIT Society]]<br />
|lineage= MIT, DEC (ancestor) <br />
|rival= N/A<br />
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|osper = TX-0<br />
|osdev = MIT, Lincoln Labs<br />
|reldate = 1955<br />
|lastrel = Circa 1960s<br />
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}}<br />
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==Technical details==<br />
TX-0 is a transistorized version of the Whirlwind mainframe, and the PDP-1 was derived from it.<br />
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==Character details==<br />
===General===<br />
TX-0-tan is [[Whirlwind]]-tan's second daughter, created from the results of Whirlwind's experimental surgeries. Physically-speaking, TX-0-tan has light skin, shoulder-length dark brown hair with long, side-swept bangs, green eyes and thick-rimmed glasses. She resembles a physically smaller and younger version of her mother; honest, intelligent and dignified, she has inherited many of her mother's personality traits as well. Her outfits are simpler than her mother's, but she still retains a strong sense of style - preferring contemporary 1950s and 1960s clothing, in particular a brown and tan pinstriped two-piece outfit with hat. Like her sisters, she inherited Whirlwind's love for hair ribbons and computer part jewelry.<br />
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Mentally-speaking, TX-0-tan has roughly the maturity of a late teen - she is more sophisticated than her little sister, [[PDP-1]]-tan, but not quite as shrewd as her mother or elder sister, [[SAGE]]. Nevertheless, she is well-educated and highly creative, having a particular knack for visual arts, drafting and design. One of the first interactive computers, TX-0-tan is capable of interacting directly with users, instead of needing operators as intermediaries. This lends her something of a reputation as a people-person, although less so than the extravagantly social timesharing systems that postdated her. <br />
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===Family and relationships===<br />
TX-0 tan is derived from Whirlwind-tan (primarily) and [[Memory Test Computer]] (secondarily), although she treated both parents with respect and kindness, she was particularly reverent toward Whirlwind. Her sisters are SAGE, [[CTSS]] and PDP-1-tan, although there is some uncertainty involving her relationship to the latter - genetically-speaking, PDP-1-tan is partially derived from TX-0-tan, causing some to suggest that PDP-1-tan may if fact be her daughter rather than sister. However, it is quite clear that TX-0 considered PDP-1-tan her sister and Whirlwind her mother. <br />
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Because of scant documentation and speculation, little is known of TX-0-tan's relationship with Whirlwind or SAGE. Judging by Whirlwind's treatment of other daughters, we can safely assume that she had a mutually-affectionate relationship with TX-0-tan; TX-0 likely spent more time with Whirlwind than SAGE or CTSS did, due to a shared geographic location and similar fields of work. As well, TX-0 and PDP-1-tan spent much time together, being employed in the same laboratory and working with many of the same users on similar projects. Fans of model trains and amateur electrical engineering, the two frequented the Tech Model Railroad Club and their work laid the basis for the hacker culture which would emerge at MIT several years later. <br />
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TX-0-tan's relationship with SAGE is a subject of speculation. It seems inevitable that SAGE and TX-0 interacted as children, given that SAGE spent much of her childhood at Lincoln Laboratory, the place of TX-0's birth and early life. Yet there are no canon accounts of SAGE and TX-0-tan interacting, something that seems inconsistent given SAGE-tan's apparently clear recollection of her childhood and tendency for writing about her early life and family. It has been suggested that SAGE-tan blamed TX-0-tan for the eventual death of Whirlwind-tan and purposefully excluded TX-0-tan from written accounts out of spite.<br />
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Although TX-0-tan is only genetically-related to the PDP-1 bloodline, she is ancestral to the [[DEC Military | DEC Faction]], having directly inspired the creation of that group.<br />
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==History and background==<br />
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[[Category:Mainframe]][[Category:Historical]][[Category:MIT]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=Memory_Test_Computer&diff=4400Memory Test Computer2014-07-10T21:47:37Z<p>Bella: </p>
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{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = mtcavi.png<br />
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|cname = Memory Test Computer<br />
|alias = MTC<br />
|hname = Mneme Olsen<br />
|debut = 2011<br />
|height = 5'6"<br />
|haircolor= Blonde<br />
|eyecolor= Golden-brown<br />
|weapon = N/A<br />
|apfaction = [[MIT Society | MIT]]<br />
|lineage= MIT; ancestral to [[DEC Military | DEC]]<br />
|rival= N/A<br />
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|osper = Memory Test Computer<br />
|osdev = MIT, Lincoln Labs<br />
|reldate = Circa 1950s(?)<br />
|lastrel = Unknown<br />
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}}<br />
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==Technical details==<br />
The Memory Test Computer is a system built to test the core memory of the Whirlwind computer. In some ways it resembled Whirlwind, and was thought to be used in SAGE's early development by some accounts.<br />
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==Character details==<br />
===General===<br />
Appearance-wise, Memory Test Computer-tan (MTC-tan) has lightly tanned skin, golden eyes and dark blonde or light brown hair, shoulder length and flipped at the ends. Her bangs are curled back, and resemble a popular women's hairstyle of the 40's. She wears a old-timey nurse outfit with a blue gingham dress, white pinafore and hat. She is slightly shorter than Whirlwind, but has similar proportions, since MTC has the same amount of memory and same processing speed as Whirlwind. <br />
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MTC-tan was purpose-built as Whirlwind's nurse and assistant. She is loyal, compassionate, and intelligent, but wasn't able to use her mind to its fullest potential (referencing the fact that the MTC did not have any software or hardware support.) Nevertheless, she is well-trained as a nurse and is a competent caretaker.<br />
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===Family and relationships===<br />
Whirlwind's connection to [[SAGE]], [[TX-0]] and [[PDP-1]]-tan is well-known, but MTC's relationship to those computer-tans is less documented. Indeed, MTC contributed to the creation of all three children - to the point where she could be considered a second mother. Although TX-0-tan seems to have viewed MTC-tan as a parent, it is unclear whether or not the other children viewed her as their mom - and if they did, whether they considered her as much a parent as Whirlwind. <br />
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For the most part, Whirlwind was MTC-tan's reason for being, as she was literally created to look after her. Because of this, MTC-tan harbors a deep love for, and dependance on, Whirlwind - and there is conjecture that she may have felt romantic affection for her superior. However, Whirlwind-tan doesn't seem to have returned these romantic feelings, being seemingly uninterested in such matters. <br />
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==History and background==<br />
==Theories and Notes==<br />
Along with Whirlwind, MTC-tan can be considered the earliest ancestor of the DEC Society. <br />
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MTC-tan's gold eyes and hair are purported to be an allusion to the flaxen-haired PDP-1 and (in part) golden-eyed SAGE-tan. <br />
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[[Category:Mainframe]][[Category:Historical]][[Category:MIT]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=Emacs&diff=4399Emacs2014-07-10T21:46:33Z<p>Bella: </p>
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{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = emacsavi.png<br />
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|cname = Emacs and all related variants<br />
|alias = Editing Macros<br />
|hname = Evan MacIntyre <br />
|debut = 2008<br />
|height = 5'11"<br />
|haircolor= Chocolate brown<br />
|eyecolor= Dark brown<br />
|weapon = n/a<br />
|apfaction = Roots in the [[MIT Society | MIT]], is unaligned and in the [[Wanderer Class]]<br />
|lineage= TECO<br />
|rival= Vi<br />
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|osper = Emacs and all varients<br />
|osdev = Originally Richard Stallman, now the GNU Project<br />
|reldate = Circa 1976<br />
|lastrel = Version 24.1, 2012<br />
}}<br />
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==Technical details== <br />
Initially developed at the MIT AI Laboratory but spun off into dozens of distinct varients, Emacs is a family of real-time text editors known for their extensible and customizable nature. Today, the most popular version is GNU Emacs, although XEmacs is also extensively used. <br />
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==Character details==<br />
====General====<br />
Physically, Emacs-kun is depicted as a man of average height and physical build, neither thin nor chubby. He is described as being handsome, with elegant, almost androgynous, features; his eyes are dark brown and his hair is similarly-colored, wavy and just a little above shoulder-length. His preferred style of dress is relaxed-but-crisp, preferring dress shirts and pants, sweaters, sportscoats and scarves. <br />
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Like many hacker-originating OS-tans, Emacs-kun is highly-educated, people-oriented and views sharing and communality as a personal moral obligation. He is well-known as an author and his style of speaking and writing is generally eloquent, even if somewhat flowery. His affable nature and articulate style have gained him large numbers of followers, whose support for him occasionally borders on zeal. He enjoys this attention and has even made a mock-religion out of it, calling his fan-following the "Church of Emacs" and creating a number of tongue-in-cheek rites and rituals. <br />
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Emacs-kun is prone to excess, particularly when it comes to food and drink, rich foods and sweets being especially tempting to him. He has a reputation for deeply romantic and a rather prolific ladies' man, but there are few confirmed relationships involving Emacs. <br />
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====Family and Relationships====<br />
His father is [[TECO]]-kun, and adoptive mothers are [[ITS]]-tan and [[PDP-10]]-tan. <br />
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Although Emacs-kun is aquatinted to a large number of OS-tans and near-universally friendly, he is most comfortable among hacker types, both of Unix- and non-Unix heritage. However, [[Vi]]-kun supplanted his position as the de-facto Unix editor-kun sometime in the 1980s, sparking a rivalry that lasts to this day. <br />
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Emacs-kun is said to have had a number of affairs with high-profile OS-tans, but only Emacs/Multics is confirmed in various OSC fanon and storyline proposals. While it seems like they have little in common due to very different backgrounds and goals, closer inspection of their personal histories and character traits reveal that they are, in fact, quite alike - from their status as world-travelers, sociable natures, love of the aesthetically- and sensually-pleasing, to the frequent criticism they face for being over-complicated and long-standing feuds with nimbler rivals. [http://ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,1539.msg129798.html#msg129798]<br />
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==History and background==<br />
Emacs-kun was born in 1976. While he is genetically derived from TECO-kun, ITS and PDP-10-tan raised him for the most part. He was able to secure a high level of popularity in the dominant computer-subcultures of the 1970s and 80s, becoming equally-lauded among the hackers of MIT and Stanford, and later on, the Unix Hacker community. His popularity also extended to [[Multics]]-tan and her followers, though his association with the baroque, closed-source and heavily-corporate mainframe-tan raised the ire of some of his followers. Nevertheless, his time spent with Multics was one of the greatest periods of personal growth for him, as her avid following adopted him quite readily and taught him skill-sets he probably wouldn't have otherwise learned. <br />
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Unlike many of his peers, he was able to weather the destruction of ''Elder Days'' Hacker community - later on the near-destruction of the Unices during the Unix Wars. In fact, he seemed to capitalize on both, as they ultimately led him to team up with the Linux-tans, who managed to prosper in the power vacuum left at the end of the Unix Wars. Today, he is mostly associated with the Linux and Open-Source Unix communities, though he is known to interact with every modern faction in existence - even if only tangentially. <br />
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==Theories and notes==<br />
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[[Category:MIT]][[Category:Software]][[Category:OS-kun]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=CPCMS&diff=4398CPCMS2014-07-10T21:45:17Z<p>Bella: </p>
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|image = cpcmsavi.png<br />
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|cname = CP/CMS<br />
|alias = CMS, Control Program/Cambridge Monitor System<br />
|hname = <br />
|debut = 2008<br />
|height = <br />
|haircolor= Brown<br />
|eyecolor= Green<br />
|weapon = Various forms of sorcery; longbow<br />
|apfaction = [[Mainframe Guild]]<br />
|lineage= IBM, [[MIT Society | MIT]] <br />
|rival= Various IBM OS-tans<br />
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|osper = CP/CMS<br />
|osdev = IBM Cambridge Scientific Center<br />
|reldate = May 1968<br />
|lastrel = v. 3.2 / 1972<br />
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}}<br />
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==Technical details==<br />
CP/CMS is a pioneering timesharing operating system for the System/360 mainframe. Developed by IBM's Cambridge Scientific Center in the 1960s and 70s, CP/CMS was novel for its goals, development process, implementation of many new technologies and having an "open source"-like release model, with its source code being made available to IBM customers and developers at no charge. While CP/CMS was a somewhat unpopular OS among IBM users, it maintained a loyal user- and developer-base, prototyped the free software/Open Source model and had a major impact on emerging software technologies - notably time-sharing and virtualization. <br />
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CP/CMS contributed directly to the IBM VM OS line, as well as the System/370's architecture. <br />
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==Character details==<br />
====General====<br />
CP/CMS-tan is depicted as a tall, elegant and athletically-built woman. Her strong features and short hairdo give her something of a boyish appearance, however her demeanor is androgynous and style of dress split between feminine and masculine - like many other OS-tans of her time, her formal-wear is complex and typically consisting of baroque gowns, but her combat and athletic attire is light and utilitarian. <br />
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CMS-tan's personality remains something of a mystery, however it is known that she is generally affable, energetic and perhaps a bit brash. An extremely skilled magic-wielder, she pioneered many forms of OS-tan sorcery and in particular contributed to the field of "open sourcery" - although it did not go by that name in her time.<br />
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==History and background==<br />
====Early life and Prime====<br />
CP/CMS-tan was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in an IBM territory with ties to MIT and Harvard. However her parent company was suspicious and fearful of her powers from the start and did everything they could to keep her in a second-class position - lest she gain enough power and political influence to displace, or even destroy, her rival IBM OS-tans (especially [[OS/360]]-tan and the other popular System/360 OSes). Her upbringing compounded her alienation, as she had almost no contact with other IBM-tans and was raised as an MIT-tan - [[CTSS]]-tan acting as a mother-figure, and [[ITS]] and [[Multics]] becoming veritable sisters. <br />
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CTSS-tan taught CMS-tan many forms of sorcery and helped form her magical skills. Despite specializing in similar forms of magic, Multics and CMS never viewed each other as rivals - on the contrary, they had a close and supportive relationship that lasted throughout their lives. And while she received little monetary support or encouragement from her parent-company, CMS amassed a large following of supporters who were more than willing to sacrifice time and money to keep her afloat and further her research.<br />
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====Connection to VM/CMS====<br />
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====Status today====<br />
CMS-tan's status is currently unknown.<br />
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[[Category:Mainframe]][[Category:IBM]][[Category:MIT]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=ITS&diff=4397ITS2014-07-10T21:42:25Z<p>Bella: </p>
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|image = 60s itsavi.jpg<br />
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|cname = ITS-tan<br />
|alias = Incompatible Timesharing System<br />
|hname = Izzy Knight<br />
|debut = Dec 2007<br />
|height = 163 cm (5'4")<br />
|haircolor= Brown<br />
|eyecolor= Brown<br />
|weapon = Firearms<br />
|apfaction = [[Wanderer Class]]<br />
|lineage= [[MIT Society]]<br />
|rival= Unix<br />
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|osper = Incompatible Time Sharing System<br />
|osdev = MIT<br />
|reldate = 1960's<br />
|lastrel = unknown (discontinued by 1990)<br />
}}<br />
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==Technical details==<br />
[[wikipedia: Incompatible_Timesharing_System| ITS]] (Incompatible Timesharing System) was developed by the MIT AI Lab in the late 1960s and is one of the first OSes of the original [[wikipedia: Hacker_(programmer_subculture) | hacker culture]]. Nimble, small and optimized to within an inch of its life, ITS originally ran on the PDP-6 and was later ported to the PDP-10 mainframe. It employed many novel security features: it did not have any passwords at first, featured a command to allow users to purposely crash it (thus diminishing the fun of it) and allowed users to spy on and interfere with one another. MIT finally shut down its ITS machines in 1990 (an event that more-or-less ended their venerable hacker society); Sweden's Stacken Computer Club retired its installation, the last in the world, in 1995. ITS is still available for hobbyist use under emulators.<br />
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==Character details==<br />
ITS-tan is a small, androgynous-looking young woman with short brown hair and yellow-brown eyes. She is sometimes depicted in a steampunk-style outfit with button up shirt, a waistcoat, jeans, a bow-tie, goggles and boots, although this is regarded as something of "formal"-wear - her typical day-to-day attire usually consisting of more casual attire. Her hobbies include riding her vintage motorbike, as well as sport shooting; she is an expert marksman and is often depicted with a holstered pistol on one hip. A recurring theme in her design is the dragon – referencing ITS' dragons, processes analogous to Unix's daemons. <br />
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Offbeat, adventurous and rebellious, she enjoys traveling and speaks fluently in hacker slang. While she displays antagonism toward her fellow MIT OS-tans – accusing them of being too complex and elephantine – she conducts herself with tact and good humour for the most part.<br />
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==History and background==<br />
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ITS was born in the late 1960s. Like [[Multics | Multics]], she was taken under the wing of [[CTSS | CTSS]]-sensei for schooling, something she thoroughly rejected; trading book-learning for street smarts, she opted for a liberated life among the hackers, a group of free-thinking minds who reject the ways of the corporate world – believing instead in community and the free exchange of ideas and information. She learned marksmanship and motorcycling in her youth and took up traveling, during which time she encountered other like-minded OS-tans.<br />
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While [[UNIX | Unix]] seems to share much in common with ITS, she in fact possesses a strong vitriol for Unix that lasts to this day; accusing her of being a part of a massive conspiracy to more or less “take over the world” – and theorizing that her behavior and means are far more akin to a Virus than an OS-tan (sentiments shared by many of her peers). It is unknown whether or not ITS realises that Unix is essentially her cousin and if this knowledge would affect her treatment of Unix. <br />
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In the mid-1970s, ITS raised young [[Emacs | Emacs-kun]] and taught him the ways of their people. During her travels she came to know [[WAITS | WAITS]] and [[TOPS-20 | Tenex]] well; together they penned the Jargon File, the compendium of hacker folklore, language and ethics. But their culture, like so many before would prove to be short-lived. The encroaching Unixes and DEC-tans slowly eroded their society and by the mid-1980s, ITS was kept on only as an homage to a quainter time; in 1990, she was kicked out of MIT in favour of her rivals. The blame for this can partially be placed on ITS; while an ardent advocate of the hacker culture, she was also rather unmotivated. Hardheaded and attached to her ways, she resisted change even even when it might have benefited her – and never fought particularly hard to keep her society alive. <br />
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Bitter but hopeful, ITS settled in Sweden but left a few years afterward; currently living as a wanderer, she has found a small measure of popularity among hobbyists. She has no children or proper relatives, although she does consider Emacs her son and [[Linux | Linux]] to be a spiritual-descendant and often visits them.<br />
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==Theories and notes==<br />
It has been speculated that ITS-tan may not identify as female, but instead agender. Proponents of this view point to her androgynous demeanor and style of dress, and her rejection of any kind of strongly gendered behavior.<br />
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[[Category:Mainframe]][[Category: Historical]][[Category:MIT]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=File:60s_itsavi.jpg&diff=4396File:60s itsavi.jpg2014-07-10T21:41:50Z<p>Bella: </p>
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{{OSinfobox<br />
|tanname= SAGE<br />
|image= Sage_avi.png<br />
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|cname= SAGE<br />
|alias= Semi Automatic Ground Environment, "Whirlwind II"<br />
|hname= Gina Forrester<br />
|debut= Jan 2008<br />
|height= 162 cm (5'4")<br />
|haircolor= Medium brown<br />
|eyecolor= Blue with yellow or gold patches<br />
|weapon= Missile launcher, makeshift weapons<br />
|apfaction= [[Wanderer Class]], formerly associated with the [[MIT Society]]<br />
|lineage= MIT, via Whirlwind<br />
|rival= [[UNIX]], enemy bombers, most microcomputer-tans, birds<br />
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|osper= Semi Automatic Ground Environment (system) and AN/FSQ-7 (hardware)<br />
|osdev= MIT Lincoln Laboratory<br />
|reldate= Jan 1959<br />
|lastrel= Circa 1983<br />
}}<br />
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==Technical Details== <br />
Built for the US Air Force by MIT, IBM and SDC, the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment was a heavily integrated air battle management network active from the late fifties to early eighties. While ineffective against ballistic missiles, it was the best answer to the threat of bomber based attack. An early user of what would become modems and the internet, interactive systems, and other advanced computing methods, SAGE pioneered many technologies that we take for granted in the modern age. <br />
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==Character Details== <br />
====General====<br />
[[File:SAGEavi.png|left|thumb|100px|SAGE-tan as an adult]]<br />
SAGE-tan is depicted as a woman of average build and height, with long brown hair typically tied up in dual buns. She is described as being rather pale-skinned, having heterochromatic blue and yellow eyes, wearing glasses to correct her severe farsightedness and routinely donning red and white checkered ribbons, having inherited her love of ribbons from her mother. During her time in the Air Force, she wore a contemporary womens' USAF uniform, though some drawn depictions put her in an elaborate, antiquated-looking military-style coat, with a ruffled shirt and ascot, puffy pants and boots. She sold off most of her fine wardrobe after her retirement; today, she dresses mainly in plain clothes, although her old uniform overcoat is still a favorite piece. <br />
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====Powers====<br />
SAGE-tan's powers remain somewhat mysterious. It is confirmed that she could see light frequencies outside of the human visual spectrum, in particular, certain radio frequencies associated with radar. Her eyes could not actually process radio frequencies themselves; she accomplished this using a second power, the ability to mentally-connect with other OS- and hardware-tans and "tap into" their sensory systems. So as long as SAGE-tan was "connected" to her radar stations, she could see in radio. Similarly, she seems to have used her assistant, [[IBM 728]]-kun, as a memory storage device, since separation from him has diminished her once-sharp memory. <br />
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It has also been suggested that SAGE possessed superhuman strength, and may have had slight precognitive abilities. <br />
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====Personality====<br />
Due to the series of mental and emotional breaks that she has undergone, it is difficult to pin down SAGE-tan's personality, or tell which emotional features are her true personality and which are just the effects of her dementia. <br />
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Judging by what has been written, SAGE-tan was a kind, inquisitive, if not somewhat peevish child, and throughout her early life she acted with courtesy, professionalism and commitment to her job - protecting the United States from the then-looming threat of nuclear war. Her personality seems to have been, at once, prickly and endearing; many of her chronicles document her as having normal, if not somewhat awkward, interactions with her friends and coworkers, and there was little evidence of the mental disorder that would later manifest itself. <br />
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A number of factors have been cited as causing her state of psychosis, among them: inherent flaws in her design, separation from her family in her youth, her usefulness being called into question almost as soon as she was debuted, her easily-baffled sensory systems and near-uselessness against the threat of ICBMs; the trauma of having many of her radar stations killed off in the 1960s, witnessing her mother die after a living for more than a decade in a state of grave illness, having an unauthorized clone made ([[SABRE]]-tan), and the passing of her beloved daughter, [[BUIC]], as well as general neglect, abandonment, and being thrust ever farther into a world alien from the idyllic one in which she grew up. <br />
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By all accounts, 1983 is the year that SAGE finally "snapped". When her final radar stations were shut down, she was all but blinded, and the death of IBM 728 destroyed her powers of memory. Devoid of her vision, memories and in a state of severe psychological illness that included bouts of extreme violence, paranoia and delusions, she ran off into the wild, where she began living a meager, drifter-like existence, inhabiting her abandoned radar sites and only occasionally venturing into society or interacting with old friends of family. Her life is one of near-total solitude and loneliness, although writing seems to give her some measure of comfort. <br />
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It should be noted that all of this must be called into question - most of the information regarding SAGE-tan's personality has been gleaned from a collection of journal-style stories, which are written in an intentionally-unreliable first-person narrative. Because of this, we may never be able to know exactly what SAGE's personality is, or what her motives are. <br />
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===Family and relationships===<br />
[[File:YoungSAGE.png|right|thumb|100px|SAGE-tan as a child]]<br />
SAGE-tan is [[Whirlwind]]-tan's first-born child and the elder sister of [[TX-0]], [[PDP-1]] and [[CTSS]]-tan. Although separated by distance, her relationship with her mother was close and affectionate. Her relationships with her sisters varied - she seemed to treat PDP-1-tan as a pesky little sister, respect CTSS-tan, bute view her as ultimately weak; and all but ignore TX-0. She has two daughters; the eldest, BUIC-tan, is her backup system, and despite having a mutually-loving relationship, SAGE rarely was able to visit with her due to reasons of national security. Her relationship with her second daughter, SABRE-tan, is strained and fraught with hatred and feelings of betrayal, since SABRE is an "clone" of SAGE-tan created by IBM without her permission. <br />
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Growing up, SAGE-tan had a number of friends - mostly human, some computer - at Lincoln Laboratory, her closest being GENIAC-chan, the small and simple computer-tan who she semi-adopted. Later on, she made friends with numerous Air Force computer and hardware systems, notably Univac 1050-II, [[FASTRAND]], LIFT-tan, and the various radar station -tans and -kuns who made up her system. Her nearest friend was arguably IBM 728-kun, whom she viewed less as acquaintance and more as a brother. <br />
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While SAGE started off hating [[Multics]]-tan, her impression of Multics softened after they worked together at Rome AFB in the 1970s, and they begun a somewhat tumultuous friendship that lasts to this day. Similarly, SAGE befriended [[DTSS]], one of her sister CTSS' close acquaintances, as well as [[Apple III]]-tan.<br />
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While a startlingly large number of "ships" involving SAGE have been proposed, few canon romantic relationships exist. SAGE/FASTRAND has been hinted at before in-story and outright stated in one alternate-universe tale, but it remains unclear whether or not it is canonical. Similarly, one alternate-universe story paired SAGE and Apple III-tan together, and it has since been accepted as canon to SAGE-tan's original creator. Some interpretations show SAGE and Multics in a relationship, with Multics being dominant over SAGE. <br />
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SAGE-tan has many enemies, both real and perceived. She hates Unix, ITS and WAITS, and her vitriol toward Unix is at least partially-returned. During her days in service, enemy bombers were a very real threat for her to fight against, but was helpless against ICBMs. Birds are perceived to be enemies just the same, referring to SAGE's radars detecting birds as well as bombers. She also looks down on the microcomputer-tans as being worthless or beneath her, making an exemption for GENIAC-tan. However, her condescending attitude towards microcomputers didn't stop her from visiting the [[Binteeji Renmei]] to reunite with GENIAC-tan, and has accidentally made friends with some of the other microcomputer-tans there.<br />
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==History and background==<br />
==Theories and Alternate Interpretations==<br />
====Life after shutdown?====<br />
Typically, when an OS-tan looses all of her installations and user-base, she dies. Yet somehow SAGE-tan has remained alive, nearly 30 years after her last sites were shut down. A number of theories have been devised to explain this anomaly, but none have been confirmed. These theories run the gamut from outlandish to mundane: that SAGE was born as, or became, a physical god; that she was so powerful in her life that she can exist without any installations; and the out-of-universe explanation that it was simply more interesting to make SAGE-tan a living character than a deceased one. <br />
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====SAGE isn't completely blind====<br />
When SAGE got disconnected from her radars and decommissioned, the most common interpretation is that she became nearly, or completely blind. Another interpretation is that when she was in service, she had superhuman levels of vision, and was able to see in the radio spectrum, but lost those abilities after being decommissioned. She might still see normally as a human can, but her vision became severely compromised compared to what it was before. <br />
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====She brought Multics from the dead====<br />
As for how Multics was brought back from the dead, it's known that the necromancer [[Plan 9|Plan 9-tan]] didn't do it because the resurrected Multics has her free will intact and doesn't show signs of dying off again. SAGE may have found a way to bring others from the dead using advanced technology, and having cheated death herself. In a state of loneliness and mental decay, and even possible feelings for her, she may have brought Multics from the dead. She may have done this not just to see her again, but to also have her kill off UNIX at last, because SAGE hates UNIX and knew that Multics nearly killed her. <br />
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While Multics never got her powers back, and can't fight, SAGE cared enough to send Multics to the Binteeji Renmei instead of leaving her to die. <br />
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==Fanworks==<br />
Because of the high volume of SAGE-tan writings and artworks, please refer to this [[List of works depicting SAGE]].<br />
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{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = multicsavi2.png<br />
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|cname = Multics<br />
|alias = Multiplexed Information and Computing Service<br />
|hname = Minerva Corbató<br />
|debut = Oct. 2007<br />
|height = 5'7" (170cm)<br />
|haircolor= Dark plum<br />
|eyecolor= Cornflower blue<br />
|weapon = Psionic forcefields, labyrinths<br />
|apfaction = [[MIT Society]]<br />
|lineage= CTSS<br />
|rival= GECOS, TSS/360, Unix<br />
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|osper = Multics<br />
|osdev = MIT, Bell Labs, GE, Honeywell<br />
|reldate = Development started in 1964; first commercial release in 1969 <br />
|lastrel = Circa 1985<br />
}}<br />
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==Technical details==<br />
Multics is an ambitious OS developed jointly by Bell Labs (dropped out of the project in 1969), General Electric (later Honeywell) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and funded largely by DARPA. The goal of this collaboration, dubbed Project MAC, was to create an operating system that worked as a water or electric utility does; running on a central mainframe which thousands of users would have access to. Because of this, stability and security were of the utmost importance.<br />
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Built on and hosted by machines running CTSS, development of Multics began in 1964; but a fully working system was not released until 1969. <br />
Multics was plagued by complexity from the start, and at many points became almost too expensive and difficult to continue development. While largely a commercial disappointment, Multics implemented many novel ideas which went on to influence the other OSes of its time, most notably Unix. Many of Multics' features can be found in popular operating systems today.<br />
In November of 2007, Multics' source code was made open by Groupe Bull; while machines capable of running Multics are long gone, a project to build a Honeywell 6180 (DPS-8) emulator is underway.<br />
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==Character details==<br />
====Physical====<br />
[[File:Multicsavi.png|left|thumb|100px|Multics-tan with her sceptre]] Multics-tan is depicted as a mature woman, mid-to-late 20s in apparent age, a little above average height with shapely hips, a curved waist and modest chest. She has long, slightly-waved dark plum hair, cornflower blue eyes and wings covered with mottled gray and black feathers. In the prime of her life, she often dressed in Rococo-inspired gowns, with deep necklines, multiple layers, corsets, hoop-skirts, bustles and petticoats common occurrences in her wardrobe. She is often depicted as having multiple piercings in both ears, wearing lipstick and eye-makeup and copious amounts of gold jewelry. Post-revival Multics dresses simply - usually being depicted in a sleeveless long off-white sundress and sporting henna-like adornments on her hands, feet and forehead. <br />
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A recurring theme in her design (both past and present) is rings and mazes, symbolic of Multics' ringed security features. Most notable among these being a round labyrinth-shaped tattoo on the upper part of her chest. In her youth, she owned a ornately decorated metal sceptre, however it was taken from her by Unix. <br />
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[[File:MulitcsAltColor.jpg|right|thumb|100px|Alternate color scheme]]''(There is an alternate color scheme for Multics based on her widely-accepted animal anthropomorphism, the bald eagle. This color scheme calls for gold eyes and dark brown wings.)'' <br />
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====Personality====<br />
Although she isn't particularly well-educated compared to the majority of her MIT-tan peers - her academic growth having taken something of a backseat to her cultural and magical development - Multics is intelligent, naturally curious and loves enriching her mind through a number of intellectual pursuits. She is particularly fond of social sciences and enjoys studying international cultures, history and learning languages, and she is fluent in English, French and Latin and familiar with German and Japanese as well. Perhaps stemming from her own avian nature, ornithology is major interest of hers and she enjoys watching birds. She is also fond of aesthetics and design and loves to create and appreciate beautiful things. <br />
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Multics' personality is complex enough to defy any sort of easy classification. She is valiant, just, loyal and ambitious to a fault, but is also habitually-hedonistic, prone to excess and arrogance (particularly in her early adulthood). Her temperament largely depends on her company - friends describe her as affectionate, committed and helpful, while enemies are treated to a decidedly cold and uncaring side of her personality. For the most part, she conducts herself with tact and courtesy, and her commanding nature and natural leadership skills gained her a devoted following - one she managed to maintain even past her death. She is rather notorious for putting on a "good face" no matter what, and tries to hide any feelings of melancholy or fear at all costs. <br />
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====Powers====<br />
For the most part, Multics' ''raison d'être'' was being a sorceress - to the point where her ability to perform sorcery was given precedence over her physical and emotional health, comfort and safety, among other basic necessities. Because of this, Multics viewed her magical abilities as something of a curse, albeit one necessary to her livelihood and survival. <br />
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In addition to possessing the typical sorcery of a timesharing-system-tan, Multics-tan practiced a number of experimental magics; in particular, she possessed powerful psionic abilities and was skilled in the creation of energy forcefields. In its most simple form, this includes the creation of basic barriers and at its most complex, extremely large labyrinth structures designed to confuse and defeat would-be attackers. In addition to keeping herself safe from attack, she uses these powers to protect valuable information and data. This was a valuable power, one that found her numerous employment opportunities in corporate and government sectors.<br />
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Although her powers waxed and waned throughout her life, she maintained a high level of magical ability until her death. <br />
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==History and background==<br />
====Origins====<br />
Multics was born in 1964, the culmination of extensive planning and research into creating a powerful OS-tan whose sorcery could reliably serve large numbers of users. Her development was originally supervised by a ''triumvirate'' of institutions - MIT, Bell Labs and GE - with large numbers of programmers and engineers from each organization. However, MIT was responsible for the majority of her design and education, as well as providing her a home. Genetically-speaking, Multics was derived from [[CTSS]]-tan, who served as a mother, caretaker and teacher throughout her youth. <br />
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In the mid-1960s, Multics traveled to Bell Labs to receive tutoring from [[BESYS]]-tan. This arrangement ended sooner than expected, as BESYS resented Multics' "displacement" of her and Multics was generally petulant toward her tutor. Some sources suggest a code connection between Multics and Besys-tan as well, although this remains speculative for the most part.<br />
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Although Multics was "born complex" - with magical and defensive powers usually only obtained through extensive instruction - her body was notoriously weak and prone to illness and she was chronically depressed throughout her youth. From around 1967 to her debut in 1970, she underwent training in a number of highly advanced and experimental forms of sorcery and the physical, psychological and magical strain of this training continued to wear on her health. By the year 1968, the project was thoroughly over-budget, behind schedule and Multics hadn't yet developed the powers expected of her. Her programmers and engineers became restless and discouraged and there was talk of cutting off funding, abandoning and the near-certain death of Multics. However, the relentless efforts of a small-but-loyal group of followers saved her and by the next year her health and powers began to rebound. <br />
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In the spring of 1969, Bell Labs dropped support for Multics and absconded with sections of her code. This was decidedly unfortunate turn of events, as it directly led to the creation of a modified clone - [[UNIX]]-tan - several months later. <br />
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====Conflict with Unix====<br />
By the fall of the same year, Multics debuted in good health and near-completely matured. Her success had gained her a dedicated following but also created enemies. [[GCOS | GECOS]]-tan, who was Multics' step-sister (via GE) and had served as her caretaker, began to see Multics as a potential threat to her livelihood if not her life. Believing UNIX to be the only person strong enough to defeat Multics, GECOS-tan mentored the girl and conditioned her to hate and fear Multics. This plan worked and throughout the early 1970s Multics faced continual failed attacks by Unix. While she had the power to defeat Unix, Multics chose not to, perhaps out of sympathy for her "daughter". <br />
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In 1971 their conflict came to a head. During a fight, Multics nearly killed Unix, and upon regaining consciousness Unix besieged Multics' defenses in a fit of berserker-like rage, absorbing a large portion of her mother's psionic energy and using it to break through her forcefields and unleash a direct physical assault. This attack left Multics with a broken wing and stripped of a large portion of her magical powers.<br />
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====Prime====<br />
The 1970s and 1980s were the prime of Multics' life. In the 70s, she continued work for MIT, collecting and keeping information, helping in social science, graphical formatting and networking projects and continuing her studies of and development of sorcery techniques. During this time, she began to take over some of her now-ailing mother's workload. <br />
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In 1970 she began working with the US Air Force at Rome AFB, a sort of exchange deal with her providing computing services and the military teaching her ever-more advanced self-defense techniques. Although the majority of her work there remains classified, it is known that during this time she met [[SAGE]]-tan. While their relationship got off to a rocky start, the two eventually started a friendship that lasted into the modern day. <br />
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In 1971 she joined the ARPANet, a burgeoning network system that incorporated many high-profile -tans of the day, and in '73, Multics debuted commercially and began securing many territories around the world. In the same year, CTSS-tan passed away, but little has been documented about Multics' reaction to the loss of her beloved mother. <br />
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Although she spent more and more time away from home, her work in Cambridge continued. United by their similar personalities, in the mid-70s she and [[Emacs]]-kun struck up a friendship and began working together. This turned out to be a symbiotic arrangement - Emacs becoming Multics' go-to text editor, and Multics teaching Emacs new forms of sorcery that he would use well into the modern day. Later on the two started dating and maintained a relationship well into the 1980s. [http://ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,1539.msg129798.html#msg129798]<br />
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The 1970s weren't all positive, however. Her nemesis, GECOS-tan, launched a new round of attacks, using her political and social power within the Honeywell faction to create doubt about and stir up sentiments against Multics. In spite of GECOS' primitive methods of sorcery and relative powerlessness against the rival mainframe-tans of the era, she was able to capture the majority of support within the faction and very nearly have Multics-tan overthrown on the spot. However, a small group of Multicians were able to stave off the deposal and secure their mistress' future, at least for awhile. <br />
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During the late 1970s and early 80s, Multics made contact with the Cray family and [[CDC Faction]]. In 1978 she traveled to the University of Calgary to take over a post being kept by [[KRONOS]]-kun and in the same year was hired to be a servant for the venerable [[CRAY-1]]-tan. Although their egos clashed initially, they eventually came to respect each other and collaborate on a number of projects. In the 80s, she became especially popular in France and resided in the nation on-and-off throughout the decade. <br />
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In 1985, Multics-tan achieved a B2 security rating, one of the highest security ratings of any OS-tan of the time. <br />
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====Decline and death====<br />
Although Multics continued to be successful throughout the 1980s, she was effectively laid off by Honeywell in 1985. While this was not considered a greatly surprising move - given their past attempts to cut off her funding in favor of GECOS-tan - it still sent shockwaves throughout the Multician community as their leader was seriously jeopardized for the first time in close to a decade. Thus began many attempts to rescue Multics from her inevitable demise. Many Multics users demanded continued support for leader, and when their pleas were refused they defected to other camps. <br />
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Others attempts were made: Multics sought to free herself from her attachments to Honeywell so she could form her own company, others, sensing the soon-to-be-demise of the Big Iron mainframe culture, sought ways to port her to new, more contemporary architectures. For a time, Multics tried to obtain asylum with the CDC faction, although the negations broke down quickly. <br />
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Her 1988 banishment from MIT was, in many ways, the nail in the proverbial coffin. Exiled to a few remaining sites, she lived the rest of her life in relative obscurity, with Halifax, Nova Scotia being her final residence. In 2000, Multics was tracked down by Unix and the two reconciled shortly before her death. [http://ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,466.msg38753.html#msg38753]<br />
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====Resurrection====<br />
In 2007, Multics-tan was brought back from the dead. The circumstances of her resurrection remains unclear - while it was originally believed that the necromancer [[Plan 9]]-tan revived her at the behest of the Multicians, there is evidence against this theory - most notably, the fact that Multics was brought back with full mental faculties and free will, something not usually seen in Plan 9-tan's revived subjects. <br />
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Recently, it has been speculated that SAGE-tan was responsible for Multics' resurrection. Supporters of this theory point to SAGE's apparent ability to cheat death (having outlived the destruction of her installations for over 30 years), as well as SAGE-tan's affection for Multics. [http://ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,1539.msg129798.html#msg129798]<br />
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Multics was reborn without any sort of magical or defensive abilities and with her riches long gone, and by all means now leads a modest lifestyle. However, she was also reborn as an Open Source OS-tan, fulfilling her lifelong dream of being able to be free of having others control her destiny. She now resides at the [[Binteeji Renmei]], a sanctuary for vintage and retired OS-tans. <br />
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==Theories and notes==<br />
*Multics may have used up a large portion of her ancestor's life-force in order to jump-start her own [http://ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,1539.msg127745.html#msg127745]<br />
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==Fanworks==<br />
====Early drawings====<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-6892 The first Multics-tan sketch]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-6891 "Young Multics-tan"]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-6900 "Multics v. Unix"]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-6949 First finished image of Multics-tan]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-7231 "O Fortuna" - Multics-tan portrait]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Multics-sama-and-Unix-sama-104126301 Multics and Unix portrait]<br />
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===Contemporary drawings===<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Autumn-311548638 "Autumn", Multics and Emacs portrait]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Rococo-Multics-Colored-212308400 "Rococo Multics" - featuring an alternative color map]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Multics-alternate-color-map-249121354 Comparison of classic and alternate color maps]<br />
*[http://choco-la-te.deviantart.com/art/Bella-s-B-day-Present-2011-194545992 Multics-tan/Panty and Stocking parody]<br />
*[http://kattlanna.deviantart.com/art/Happily-ever-after-164291059 "Happily Ever After"]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Antithesis-142049059 "Antithesis"]<br />
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===Fiction===<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/Multics-sama-and-MTS-tan-148864468 "Multics-sama and MTS-tan"]<br />
*[bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/OC-Meme-OS-tan-Edition-153317602 Character interview featuring Multics-tan]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Ringmistress-214815629 "Ringmistress"]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Unix-tan-fanfic-pt-I-164941135 "Unix-tan Fanfic, pt. I"]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Unix-tan-fanfic-pt-II-168520462 "Unix-tan Fanfic, pt. II"]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/OS-tans-on-a-Ship-173009589 "OS-tans on a Ship"]<br />
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"Dirty Water" ''(Multics-tan featured in parts 4 and 5)''<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/Dirty-Water-Pt-1-151306482 Pt. 1]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/Dirty-Water-Pt-2-151306625 Pt. 2]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/Dirty-Water-Pt-3-151306781 Pt. 3]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/Dirty-Water-Pt-4-151306844 Pt. 4]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/Dirty-Water-Pt-5-151306914 Pt. 5]<br />
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"Reunion"<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/Reunion-Pt-1-165986880 Part 1]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/Reunion-Pt-2-165987523 Part 2]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/Reunion-Pt-3-166384407 Part 3]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/Reunion-Pt-4-166983384 Part 4]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/Reunion-Pt-5-169687916 Part 5]<br />
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"What's For Dinner"<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/What-s-For-Dinner-Pt-1-182016623 Part 1]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/What-s-for-Dinner-Pt-2-182017160 Part 2]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/What-s-for-Dinner-Pt-3-182018278 Part 3]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/What-s-for-Dinner-Pt-4-182018686 Part 4]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/What-s-for-Dinner-Pt-5-182019485 Part 5]<br />
*[http://cptlfrghtr.deviantart.com/art/What-s-for-Dinner-Pt-6-182019676 Part 6]<br />
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[[Category:Mainframe]][[Category: Historical]][[Category:MIT]][[Category:OpenSource]][[Category:Binteeji Renmei]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=CTSS&diff=4392CTSS2014-07-10T21:31:12Z<p>Bella: </p>
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|image = CTSSLarge.png<br />
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|cname = CTSS-tan<br />
|alias = Compatible Time-Sharing System<br />
|hname = Tessa Corbato<br />
|debut = Dec 2007<br />
|height = 168 cm (5'6")<br />
|haircolor= dark red<br />
|eyecolor= dark red<br />
|weapon = Yet-unknown, may involve fire<br />
|apfaction = [[MIT Society]] and loosely associated with the IBMs.<br />
|lineage= MIT- direct descendant of Whirlwind<br />
|rival= N/A<br />
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|osper = Compatible Time-Sharing System<br />
|osdev = MIT<br />
|reldate = 1961<br />
|lastrel = unknown, discontinued by 1973<br />
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==Technical details==<br />
The [[wikipedia: Compatible_Time-Sharing_System| Compatible Timesharing System]], released 1961, is a small timesharing system built for the [[wikipedia: IBM_7094 | IBM 7094 computer]]. One of the first timesharing operating systems, it was developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computation Center. It's worth noting that the “Compatible” in CTSS' name refers to an earlier IBM OS, Fortran Monitor Program, which CTSS virtualized in order to complete batch processes. <br />
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While it had a short lifespan of twelve years and was only installed in two sites (both on the MIT campus) CTSS proved to be prolific; it influenced most timesharing systems to come, most notably CP/CMS, TSS/360 and [[Multics | Multics]] – the latter a direct descendant, built on and hosted by CTSS machines until it was self-functioning. <br />
The source code of CTSS was made open and freely available in 2004. In August of 2010, an operational 7094 emulator capable of running a functioning CTSS system was released.<br />
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==Character details==<br />
===General===<br />
CTSS-tan is depicted as a mature woman with wavy dark red hair, dark red eyes and small oval glasses. A sinophile, she dresses in Chinese-inspired Victorian-style clothing and partakes in Chinese cultural activities. She dresses simply and elegantly, reflecting the sensible nature of the system. Her mother is [[Whirlwind | Whirlwind]], and has two sisters who both outlived her: [[SAGE | SAGE]] and [[PDP-1 | PDP 1]]. She stands out as the only OS-tan in a family of hardware and hybrid -tans. <br />
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CTSS is quiet and reserved, traits sometimes mistaken for emotional distance or coldness. In reality she is actually quite kind and caring especially toward her “kids” and students. She considered Multics her child and took care of her when she was too young, and sick, to care for herself; one of her greatest achievements in life was raising her into healthy adulthood (and furthermore securing an heir).<br />
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===Alternate character interpretation===<br />
She is usually portrayed as a deceased character. Seeing that CTSS was Open Sourced and can now be used in emulators, another interpretation is that she was resurrected, but if so, her whereabouts haven't been discussed yet.<br />
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==History and background==<br />
Along with Multics, CTSS also taught many young timesharing OS-tans of the day, including [[CPCMS | CP/CMS]], [[TSS360 | TSS/360]] and [[ITS | ITS]]. It is unknown how she feels about her most famous descendant, [[UNIX | Unix]], as the two never had an opportunity to meet; but has been speculated that she would have looked upon her simple granddaughter favourably. <br />
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While technically an IBM-tan, CTSS had no allegiance to the empire, scorning them for the academic intelligentsia of MIT. The only IBM-tans she regularly worked with, and had affection for, are FMP-tan – her assistant – and CP/CMS, one of her students. <br />
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CTSS never left Cambridge, Massachusetts and largely ignored the outside world. She had a few outsider friends however, most notably [[DTSS | DTSS-tan]]. While CTSS' short life ended in 1973, her legacy lives on to this day and has no end in sight. <br />
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Since CTSS became Open Source in 2004, and at least one emulator already being developed, it's possible she could be completely resurrected.<br />
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==HIstory==<br />
====Early====<br />
Though bloodlines existed within it, MIT's computer culture was less a family and more a loose affiliation of OS-tans bound by organizational, political and regional ties. Though evidence exists that computer-tans of some stripe existed previous, Whirlwind-tan is the first documented MIT computer and helped to establish traditions followed by subsequent MIT systems, in particular the focus on bridging the gap between humans and computer-tans via interactive computing. Along with directly influencing the culture through her research and teaching, Whirlwind made a mark through her three children, [[SAGE]], [[TX-0]] and [[PDP-1]], and her adopted daughter, [[CTSS]], each of whom influenced MIT culture in their own way.<br />
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*SAGE (born ca. 1951) inadvertently helped establish MIT's Lincoln Laboratory and their tradition of working with the government and military on a variety of computing projects;<br />
*TX-0 (born 1955) established the tradition of "small computing" at MIT, in the process sparking the rise of the minicomputer race (DEC in particular), as well as contributing heavily to the creation of the Hacker Culture;<br />
*PDP-1 (born 1959) followed in her elder sister's footsteps and played a founding role in the creation of the DEC Faction;<br />
*CTSS (born 1961) was the foundress of MIT's OS-tan lineage, in particular their tradition of powerful timesharing OS-tans.<br />
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Originating from Lincoln Laboratory, [[LINC]]-tan was important both inside and outside of MIT (being one of the founding figures of the minicomputer race, she later joined PDP-1 in the DEC Faction). In the mid-1960s, a number of OS-tans rose to prominence at MIT, most notably CTSS' daughter [[Multics]] and her pupils [[ITS]] and [[CPCMS | CP/CMS]]. They were among the first "modern" operating systems and signaled a permanent shift from primitive batch-processing systems and toward more highly-capable, personable and magically-adept timesharing OS-tans.<br />
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====Contemporary Developments====<br />
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==See also:==<br />
[[DEC Military]]<br />
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==HIstory==<br />
Though bloodlines existed within it, MIT's computer culture was less a family and more a loose affiliation of OS-tans bound by organizational, political and regional ties. Though evidence exists that computer-tans of some stripe existed previous, Whirlwind-tan is the first documented MIT computer and helped to establish traditions followed by subsequent MIT systems, in particular the focus on bridging the gap between humans and computer-tans via interactive computing. Along with directly influencing the culture through her research and teaching, Whirlwind made a mark through her three children, [[SAGE]], [[TX-0]] and [[PDP-1]], and her adopted daughter, [[CTSS]], each of whom influenced MIT culture in their own way.<br />
<br />
*SAGE (born ca. 1951) inadvertently helped establish MIT's Lincoln Laboratory and their tradition of working with the government and military on a variety of computing projects;<br />
*TX-0 (born 1955) established the tradition of "small computing" at MIT, in the process sparking the rise of the minicomputer race (DEC in particular), as well as contributing heavily to the creation of the Hacker Culture;<br />
*PDP-1 (born 1959) followed in her elder sister's footsteps and played a founding role in the creation of the DEC Faction;<br />
*CTSS (born 1961) was the foundress of MIT's OS-tan lineage, in particular their tradition of powerful timesharing OS-tans.<br />
<br />
Originating from Lincoln Laboratory, [[LINC]]-tan was important both inside and outside of MIT (being one of the founding figures of the minicomputer race, she later joined PDP-1 in the DEC Faction). In the mid-1960s, a number of OS-tans rose to prominence at MIT, most notably CTSS' daughter [[Multics]] and her pupils [[ITS]] and [[CPCMS | CP/CMS]]. They were among the first "modern" operating systems and signaled a permanent shift from primitive batch-processing systems and toward more highly-capable, personable and magically-adept timesharing OS-tans.<br />
<br />
==Values and Beliefs==<br />
<br />
<br />
==See also:==<br />
[[DEC Military]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Factions]][[Category:MIT]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=Linux&diff=4258Linux2013-06-24T01:15:28Z<p>Bella: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{WIP}}<br />
<br />
{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = GNULinux.png <br />
<br />
|cname = Linux<br />
|alias = GNU/Linux<br />
|hname = Lina Torvalds<br />
|debut = Unknown<br />
|height = 5 foot 6 inches<br />
|haircolor= Moderate Mulberry; blue or brown in some variants<br />
|eyecolor= Mulberry; red or orange in variants<br />
|weapon = Spear, halberd, sorcery<br />
|apfaction = [[Linux Unix Consortium]]<br />
|lineage= Unix-like<br />
|rival= Various<br />
<br />
|osper = GNU/Linux<br />
|osdev = Various developers<br />
|reldate = 17 September 1991<br />
|lastrel = Kernel: 3.1, 24 October 2011<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Technical Details==<br />
GNU/Linux is the name given to a family of open source Unix-like operating systems. One of the most famous and successful implementations of open source software, Linux distrubutions can be found in every sector of the computer industry and on every modern architecture– from the largest mainframes to the fastest supercomputers to PCs and cell phones. <br />
<br />
Created in 1991 by Linus Torvalds, the original Linux kernel source was posted to a usenet group, where people the world over began modifying and improving its construction. Soon thereafter the kernel was coupled with the GNU Project's collection of libraries and utilities, making a viable operating system – by 1992, the first Linux distros appeared. Since then GNU/Linux has continually evolved, with various distros created and funded by corporations, institutions, communities and individuals. <br />
<br />
==Character details==<br />
Due to the relative high-profile nature of GNU/Linux, several Linux-tan characterizations exist. This article will detail several of the best-known ones. <br />
<br />
====Outside designs====<br />
[[File:Linux.jpg|left|thumb|100px|Futaba Linux-tan]]One of the earliest known Linux-tan designs, originating from the Futaba image board, was that of Kami-Tux - a large bearded penguin with horns (a reference to the GNU GPL), a row of gear-teeth running down the top of his head (most likely alluding to the gear-based KDE logo) and a spear. Also originating on Futaba was a humanoid Linux-tan personification depicted as a young girl with light skin, long, hime-cut blueish or purple hair, red or pinkish eyes, a loose, sleeveless blue dress with gold accenting, flipper-shaped shoes, a spear with multiple ribbons attached near the spearhead and a large helmet with a penguin bill-like visor, gnu horns and a row of gear's teeth running down the middle. This design varied somewhat from artist to artist, but it often incorporated logos from Linux-related projects: for instance, the KDE "K" stamped on her helmet, the GNOME footprint logo printed on her dress, and the names of different Linux bootloaders emblazoned on the spear's ribbons. <br />
<br />
In early 2005, the Italian artist Juzo-kun designed another Linux humanization [http://juzo-kun.deviantart.com/art/OS-tan-fanart-Linux-tan-15714339]. This design was depicted as a fair-skinned woman with long brown hair and orange eyes. She wears a black-and-white military-style jacket with gold accents, white tights and gloves, golden boots and body armor on her shoulders, forearms and shins, as well as a geared helmet and carries a spear (both of which are references to the earlier Futaba design). Many subsequent Linux personifications are either based on, or incorporate features from, Juzo-kun's Linux-tan. <br />
<br />
====OSC designs====<br />
[[File:Cchanlinux.png|right|thumb|100px|C-chan's Linux-tan]]OS-tan Collection's first and possibly only in-house Linux-tan originated with the artist C-Chan. This 2007 personification is not so much an original character as an amalgamation of both Juzo-kun's and Futaba's Linux-tans - like the Japanese design, she is depicted with purple hime-cut hair, a blue and gold billed-and-horned helmet, and ribbon-covered spear; however, she is wearing an outfit based on Juzo-kun's characterization, albeit with a modified color scheme (blue and white instead of black and white). As well, the eye color of this design is purple instead of the previously-featured orange or pink. Although this Linux-tan has been modified by different OSC artists (for instance, changed hairstyles, outfits, weaponry), it remains the dominant OSC-based design.<br />
<br />
A variation of C-Chan's original design (created by Bella for use in her comic and later adopted by C-Chan) depicts Linux-tan with rather messy, side-swept bangs, KDE logo earrings, a navy blue military-style jacket, similarly-colored knee-high boots, white short-shorts or a white miniskirt and tights, and a teal ''Compiz-Fusion'' cape. She carries a halberd covered in numerous red ribbons emblazoned with Linux utility names and possesses forcefield-based shields instead of her traditional helmet and body armor. As well, there is a ''Security Enhanced Linux'' GNU/Linux-tan variation - this version puts Linux-tan in elaborate military-style uniform, but little else is known about it. Both of these designs are considered current-day or future representations of Linux-tan rather than different characters altogether.<br />
<br />
Further development by the artist Bella presents Linux-tan as being about 5'6" tall, of slim-average build, and roughly in her late teens - early twenties in apparent age. <br />
<br />
Author NejinOniwa created a modified Linux-tan design for use in his series of [[OSC Literature and Manga Guide | stories]], although it is unknown how much she differs from the earlier OSC version. <br />
<br />
====OSC Notes====<br />
In most OSC-proposed stories, the Futaba Linux design is considered to be representative of Linux-tan's early self, while the various OSC designs are considered her adolescent and adult selves.<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
Linux-tan is depicted as having the intelligence and pragmatism of a Unix combined with the optimism and idealism of an Open Source disciple. She values openness and honesty above all else, and while friends tend to find her ability to "tell it like it is" refreshing, detractors call her blunt or deficient in tact. In spite of her occasionally brusque nature, she seems to be sincerely good and devoted to helping others. She is particularly vested in the plight of older and abandoned computer-tans as well as her Open Source ''brethren'' and is quick to speak out against injustices faced by their kind. <br />
<br />
Like the majority of Open Source OS-tans, Linux is extroverted and values communality, and although she is lacking somewhat in social grace she can still command the attention and admiration of others. Although she can best be described as intelligent beyond her years, Linux-tan's psychological age is roughly equivalent to her physical one and she maintains a sense of youthful enthusiasm. Although she has historically been oriented more toward work than play, in recent years she has cultivated a better capacity for fun and recreation.<br />
<br />
In spite of her generally good nature and inclination toward helping "the common man", historically Linux-tan has found more popularity amongst business, scientific and other high-end types than home and personal computers and users - a phenomena likely caused by her intelligence and reputation for being cryptic and verbose to those not versed in the ways of Unixkind. In recent years she has made great inroads into the home user market through her proliferation in the mobile computing sector and has befriended more non-technical types than ever before. <br />
<br />
Although she is trained in a number of fighting techniques, Linux-tan is non-violent for the most part – believing her ideals to be a far more powerful weapon against adversaries than any spell or spear – but on the occasions that she must use force, she chooses to fight fairly and honorably. <br />
<br />
===Powers===<br />
The extent of Linux-tan's powers have never been fully outlined. She was born without any innate magical abilities, but her tutor [[Minix]]-sensei taught her rudimentary healing spells during her childhood, an ability she honed throughout her youth. During her training under the ''GNU Project'', she acquired a considerably broader range of sorcery - including specialized and general-purpose sorcery as well as self-defense magic. A true ''Open Soucerer'', she has developed many spells of her own and shares them freely with her followers and any curious parties. <br />
<br />
While she possesses knowledge of a number of defensive sorcery techniques, she prefers hand-to-hand combat - believing her sorcery is better put to use in constructive rather than destructive pursuits. In recent years she has deployed specialized magical armor - generally depicted as a sort of horned halo, this "armor" takes the place of her old helmet. <br />
==History and background==<br />
<br />
Born in Finland in 1991, Linux was soon thereafter turned over to [[Minix | Minix-sensei]] for further schooling. As per “father's” orders, in 1992 she was set out into the world so that she might find her own path in life.<br />
<br />
Linux consciously avoided the destruction of the Unix Wars, something that allowed her to develop free of its negative influences. Born powerless, a chance encounter with [[ITS | ITS]] inspired her to approach the GNU society – practitioners of an advanced form of “open sourcery” who sought an OS-tan to wield the power they has created. At their headquarters in Boston she learnt the secrets of their sorcery and most of her strategic skills.<br />
<br />
Since her source code (analogous to gene sequence) was made freely available, she could stay extremely healthy, and furthermore, have many children created. Her powers, growing family and band of followers, and alliance with the scrappy young Apache Server-tan made Linux stronger than ever – and made her a prime target for the Unix-tans, who were terrified that her rising popularity would further destabilize their already crumbling society. In an attempt to pacify those calling for Linux's capture (or assassination), [[UNIX | Unix]] ordered some of her daughters to capture and deliver to her Linux, unharmed; orders which they begrudgingly carried out. Linux initially feared that Unix would kill her, but it soon became clear that Unix meant no harm.<br />
<br />
Their discussion turned to matters of family and conflict, during which Unix revealed her fear that Linux would destroy the old Unix society and replace it with her own, much as Unix herself had done to the generation proceeding her own. Linux was smart enough to draw a parallel between Unix's story and her own rise to power; not wanting to encounter a similar fate, Linux agreed to Unix's suggestion that they work together instead of fighting. <br />
<br />
While their cultures have been largely integrated, their treatment of each other is uneasy at best and Linux remains the point of much suspicion – especially with the looming possibility that she could inherit the Unix throne.<br />
<br />
==Family and relationships==<br />
<br />
===Unix===<br />
<br />
===Minix===<br />
<br />
==Fanworks==<br />
====OSC Linux====<br />
*[http://c-quel.deviantart.com/art/Chibi-Linux-1999-2009-112283608 Linux chibis]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Security-Enhanced-Linux-tan-209467429 Security Enhanced Linux-tan concept sketch]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Linux-and-Unix-on-a-Ship-154026386 "Unix and Linux on a Ship"]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Unix-and-Linux-tan-FINAL-149087774 Unix and Linux-tan portrait]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/A-Very-Unix-Christmas-107585314 "Very Unix Chirstmas"]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-6719 Early Unix and Linux-tans drawing]<br />
====Juzo-Kun's Linux====<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-7079]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-2631]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-2614]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-2632]<br />
====Other Designs====<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-7078]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-5276]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-5842]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-8925]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-8933]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-8725]<br />
<br />
====Comics====<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/gallery/7389585 Linux-tan Comic, Chapter 1]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/gallery/8017607 Linux-tan Comic, Chapter 2]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/gallery/8017662 Linux-tan Comic, Chapter 3]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/gallery/8033837 Linux-tan Comic, Chapter 4]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/gallery/24249739 Linux-tan Comic, Chapter 5]<br />
<br />
====Writings====<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Unix-tan-fanfic-pt-I-164941135 Unix-tan Fanfic Part I]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Unix-tan-fanfic-pt-II-168520462 Unix-tan Fanfic Part II]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/OC-Meme-OS-tan-Edition-pt-II-155094361 OS-tan Interview featuring Linux-tan]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Linux]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=Linux&diff=4257Linux2013-06-24T01:11:59Z<p>Bella: </p>
<hr />
<div>{{WIP}}<br />
<br />
{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = GNULinux.png <br />
<br />
|cname = Linux<br />
|alias = GNU/Linux<br />
|hname = Lina Torvalds<br />
|debut = Unknown<br />
|height = 5 foot 6 inches<br />
|haircolor= Moderate Mulberry; blue or brown in some variants<br />
|eyecolor= Mulberry; red or orange in variants<br />
|weapon = Spear, halberd, sorcery<br />
|apfaction = [[Linux Unix Consortium]]<br />
|lineage= Unix-like<br />
|rival= Various<br />
<br />
|osper = GNU/Linux<br />
|osdev = Various developers<br />
|reldate = 17 September 1991<br />
|lastrel = Kernel: 3.1, 24 October 2011<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Technical Details==<br />
GNU/Linux is the name given to a family of open source Unix-like operating systems. One of the most famous and successful implementations of open source software, Linux distrubutions can be found in every sector of the computer industry and on every modern architecture– from the largest mainframes to the fastest supercomputers to PCs and cell phones. <br />
<br />
Created in 1991 by Linus Torvalds, the original Linux kernel source was posted to a usenet group, where people the world over began modifying and improving its construction. Soon thereafter the kernel was coupled with the GNU Project's collection of libraries and utilities, making a viable operating system – by 1992, the first Linux distros appeared. Since then GNU/Linux has continually evolved, with various distros created and funded by corporations, institutions, communities and individuals. <br />
<br />
==Character details==<br />
Due to the relative high-profile nature of GNU/Linux, several Linux-tan characterizations exist. This article will detail several of the best-known ones. <br />
<br />
====Outside designs====<br />
[[File:Linux.jpg|left|thumb|100px|Futaba Linux-tan]]One of the earliest known "Linux-tan" designs, originating from the Futaba image board, was that of Kami-Tux - a large bearded penguin with horns (a reference to the GNU GPL), a row of gear-teeth running down the top of his head (most likely alluding to the gear-based KDE logo) and a spear. Also originating on Futaba was a humanoid Linux-tan personification depicted as a young girl with light skin, long, hime-cut blueish or purple hair, red or pinkish eyes, a loose, sleeveless blue dress with gold accenting, flipper-shaped shoes, a spear with multiple ribbons attached near the spearhead and a large helmet with a penguin bill-like visor, gnu horns and a row of gear's teeth running down the middle. This design varied somewhat from artist to artist, but it often incorporated logos from Linux-related projects: for instance, the KDE "K" stamped on her helmet, the GNOME footprint logo printed on her dress, and the names of different Linux bootloaders emblazoned on the spear's ribbons. <br />
<br />
In early 2005, the Italian artist Juzo-kun designed another Linux humanization [http://juzo-kun.deviantart.com/art/OS-tan-fanart-Linux-tan-15714339]. This design was depicted as a fair-skinned woman with long brown hair and orange eyes. She wears a black-and-white military-style jacket with gold accents, white tights and gloves, golden boots and body armor on her shoulders, forearms and shins, as well as a geared helmet and carries a spear (both of which are references to the earlier Futaba design). Many subsequent Linux personifications are either based on, or incorporate features from, Juzo-kun's Linux-tan. <br />
<br />
====OSC designs====<br />
[[File:Cchanlinux.png|right|thumb|100px|C-chan's Linux-tan]]OS-tan Collection's first and possibly only "in-house" Linux-tan originated with the artist C-Chan. This 2007 personification is not so much an original character as an amalgamation of both Juzo-kun's and Futaba's Linux-tans - like the Japanese design, she is depicted with purple hime-cut hair, a blue and gold billed-and-horned helmet, and ribbon-covered spear; however, she is wearing an outfit based on Juzo-kun's characterization, albeit with a modified color scheme (blue and white instead of black and white). As well, the eye color of this design is purple instead of the previously-featured orange or pink. Although this Linux-tan has been modified by different OSC artists (for instance, changed hairstyles, outfits, weaponry), it remains the dominant OSC-based design.<br />
<br />
A variation of C-Chan's original design (created by Bella for use in her comic and later adopted by C-Chan) depicts Linux-tan with rather messy, side-swept bangs, KDE logo earrings, a navy blue military-style jacket, similarly-colored knee-high boots, white short-shorts or a white miniskirt and tights, and a teal "Compiz-Fusion" cape. She carries a halberd covered in numerous red ribbons emblazoned with Linux utility names and possesses forcefield-based shields instead of her traditional helmet and body armor. As well, there is a ''Security Enhanced Linux'' GNU/Linux-tan variation - this version puts Linux-tan in elaborate military-style uniform, but little else is known about it. Both of these designs are considered current-day or future representations of Linux-tan rather than different characters altogether.<br />
<br />
Further development by the artist Bella presents Linux-tan as being about 5'6" tall, of slim-average build, and roughly in her late teens - early twenties in apparent age. <br />
<br />
Author NejinOniwa created a modified Linux-tan design for use in his series of [[OSC Literature and Manga Guide | stories]], although it is unknown how much she differs from the earlier OSC version. <br />
<br />
====OSC Notes====<br />
In most OSC-proposed stories, the Futaba Linux design is considered to be representative of Linux-tan's early self, while the various OSC designs are considered her adolescent and adult selves.<br />
<br />
===Personality===<br />
Linux-tan is depicted as having the intelligence and pragmatism of a Unix combined with the optimism and idealism of an Open Source disciple. She values openness and honesty above all else, and while friends tend to find her ability to "tell it like it is" refreshing, detractors call her blunt or deficient in tact. In spite of her occasionally brusque nature, she seems to be sincerely good and devoted to helping others. She is particularly vested in the plight of older and abandoned computer-tans as well as her Open Source ''brethren'' and is quick to speak out against injustices faced by their kind. <br />
<br />
Like the majority of Open Source OS-tans, Linux is extroverted and values communality, and although she is lacking somewhat in social grace she can still command the attention and admiration of others. Although she can best be described as "intelligent beyond her years", Linux-tan's psychological age is roughly equivalent to her physical one and she maintains a sense of youthful enthusiasm. Although she has historically been oriented more toward "work" than "play", in recent years she has cultivated a better capacity for fun and recreation.<br />
<br />
In spite of her generally good nature and inclination toward helping "the common man", historically Linux-tan has found more popularity amongst business, scientific and other high-end types than home and personal computers and users - a phenomena likely caused by her intelligence and reputation for being cryptic and verbose to those not versed in the ways of Unixkind. In recent years she has made great inroads into the home user market through her proliferation in the mobile computing sector and has befriended more non-technical types than ever before. <br />
<br />
Although she is trained in a number of fighting techniques, Linux-tan is non-violent for the most part – believing her ideals to be a far more powerful weapon against adversaries than any spell or spear – but on the occasions that she must use force, she chooses to fight fairly and honorably. <br />
<br />
===Powers===<br />
The extent of Linux-tan's powers have never been fully outlined. She was born without any innate magical abilities, but her tutor [[Minix]]-sensei taught her rudimentary healing spells during her childhood, an ability she honed throughout her youth. During her training under the ''GNU Project'', she acquired a considerably broader range of sorcery - including specialized and general-purpose sorcery as well as self-defense magic. A true ''Open Soucerer'', she has developed many spells of her own and shares them freely with her followers and any curious parties. <br />
<br />
While she possesses knowledge of a number of defensive sorcery techniques, she prefers hand-to-hand combat - believing her sorcery is better put to use in constructive rather than destructive pursuits. In recent years she has deployed specialized magical armor - generally depicted as a sort of horned halo, this "armor" takes the place of her old helmet. <br />
==History and background==<br />
<br />
Born in Finland in 1991, Linux was soon thereafter turned over to [[Minix | Minix-sensei]] for further schooling. As per “father's” orders, in 1992 she was set out into the world so that she might find her own path in life.<br />
<br />
Linux consciously avoided the destruction of the Unix Wars, something that allowed her to develop free of its negative influences. Born powerless, a chance encounter with [[ITS | ITS]] inspired her to approach the GNU society – practitioners of an advanced form of “open sourcery” who sought an OS-tan to wield the power they has created. At their headquarters in Boston she learnt the secrets of their sorcery and most of her strategic skills.<br />
<br />
Since her source code (analogous to gene sequence) was made freely available, she could stay extremely healthy, and furthermore, have many children created. Her powers, growing family and band of followers, and alliance with the scrappy young Apache Server-tan made Linux stronger than ever – and made her a prime target for the Unix-tans, who were terrified that her rising popularity would further destabilize their already crumbling society. In an attempt to pacify those calling for Linux's capture (or assassination), [[UNIX | Unix]] ordered some of her daughters to capture and deliver to her Linux, unharmed; orders which they begrudgingly carried out. Linux initially feared that Unix would kill her, but it soon became clear that Unix meant no harm.<br />
<br />
Their discussion turned to matters of family and conflict, during which Unix revealed her fear that Linux would destroy the old Unix society and replace it with her own, much as Unix herself had done to the generation proceeding her own. Linux was smart enough to draw a parallel between Unix's story and her own rise to power; not wanting to encounter a similar fate, Linux agreed to Unix's suggestion that they work together instead of fighting. <br />
<br />
While their cultures have been largely integrated, their treatment of each other is uneasy at best and Linux remains the point of much suspicion – especially with the looming possibility that she could inherit the Unix throne.<br />
<br />
==Family and relationships==<br />
<br />
===Unix===<br />
<br />
===Minix===<br />
<br />
==Fanworks==<br />
====OSC Linux====<br />
*[http://c-quel.deviantart.com/art/Chibi-Linux-1999-2009-112283608 Linux chibis]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Security-Enhanced-Linux-tan-209467429 Security Enhanced Linux-tan concept sketch]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Linux-and-Unix-on-a-Ship-154026386 "Unix and Linux on a Ship"]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Unix-and-Linux-tan-FINAL-149087774 Unix and Linux-tan portrait]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/A-Very-Unix-Christmas-107585314 "Very Unix Chirstmas"]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-6719 Early Unix and Linux-tans drawing]<br />
====Juzo-Kun's Linux====<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-7079]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-2631]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-2614]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-2632]<br />
====Other Designs====<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-7078]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-5276]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-5842]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-8925]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-8933]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-8725]<br />
<br />
====Comics====<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/gallery/7389585 Linux-tan Comic, Chapter 1]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/gallery/8017607 Linux-tan Comic, Chapter 2]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/gallery/8017662 Linux-tan Comic, Chapter 3]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/gallery/8033837 Linux-tan Comic, Chapter 4]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/gallery/24249739 Linux-tan Comic, Chapter 5]<br />
<br />
====Writings====<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Unix-tan-fanfic-pt-I-164941135 Unix-tan Fanfic Part I]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Unix-tan-fanfic-pt-II-168520462 Unix-tan Fanfic Part II]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/OC-Meme-OS-tan-Edition-pt-II-155094361 OS-tan Interview featuring Linux-tan]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Linux]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=File:Cchanlinux.png&diff=4256File:Cchanlinux.png2013-06-20T21:26:07Z<p>Bella: </p>
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<div></div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=TX-0&diff=4255TX-02013-04-14T18:20:48Z<p>Bella: </p>
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{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = tx0avi.png<br />
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|cname = TX-0<br />
|alias = Tixo, Transistorized Experimental computer zero<br />
|hname = <br />
|debut = 2012<br />
|height = 5'3"<br />
|haircolor= Brown<br />
|eyecolor= Green<br />
|weapon = N/A<br />
|apfaction = Formerly of the MIT-tan quasi-faction<br />
|lineage= MIT, DEC (ancestor) <br />
|rival= N/A<br />
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|osper = TX-0<br />
|osdev = MIT, Lincoln Labs<br />
|reldate = 1955<br />
|lastrel = Circa 1960s<br />
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}}<br />
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==Technical details==<br />
TX-0 is a transistorized version of the Whirlwind mainframe, and the PDP-1 was derived from it.<br />
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==Character details==<br />
===General===<br />
TX-0-tan is [[Whirlwind]]-tan's second daughter, created from the results of Whirlwind's experimental surgeries. Physically-speaking, TX-0-tan has light skin, shoulder-length dark brown hair with long, side-swept bangs, green eyes and thick-rimmed glasses. She resembles a physically smaller and younger version of her mother; honest, intelligent and dignified, she has inherited many of her mother's personality traits as well. Her outfits are simpler than her mother's, but she still retains a strong sense of style - preferring contemporary 1950s and 1960s clothing, in particular a brown and tan pinstriped two-piece outfit with hat. Like her sisters, she inherited Whirlwind's love for hair ribbons and computer part jewelry.<br />
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Mentally-speaking, TX-0-tan has roughly the maturity of a late teen - she is more sophisticated than her little sister, [[PDP-1]]-tan, but not quite as shrewd as her mother or elder sister, [[SAGE]]. Nevertheless, she is well-educated and highly creative, having a particular knack for visual arts, drafting and design. One of the first interactive computers, TX-0-tan is capable of interacting directly with users, instead of needing operators as intermediaries. This lends her something of a reputation as a people-person, although less so than the extravagantly social timesharing systems that postdated her. <br />
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===Family and relationships===<br />
TX-0 tan is derived from Whirlwind-tan (primarily) and [[Memory Test Computer]] (secondarily), although she treated both parents with respect and kindness, she was particularly reverent toward Whirlwind. Her sisters are SAGE, [[CTSS]] and PDP-1-tan, although there is some uncertainty involving her relationship to the latter - genetically-speaking, PDP-1-tan is partially derived from TX-0-tan, causing some to suggest that PDP-1-tan may if fact be her daughter rather than sister. However, it is quite clear that TX-0 considered PDP-1-tan her sister and Whirlwind her mother. <br />
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Because of scant documentation and speculation, little is known of TX-0-tan's relationship with Whirlwind or SAGE. Judging by Whirlwind's treatment of other daughters, we can safely assume that she had a mutually-affectionate relationship with TX-0-tan; TX-0 likely spent more time with Whirlwind than SAGE or CTSS did, due to a shared geographic location and similar fields of work. As well, TX-0 and PDP-1-tan spent much time together, being employed in the same laboratory and working with many of the same users on similar projects. Fans of model trains and amateur electrical engineering, the two frequented the Tech Model Railroad Club and their work laid the basis for the hacker culture which would emerge at MIT several years later. <br />
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TX-0-tan's relationship with SAGE is a subject of speculation. It seems inevitable that SAGE and TX-0 interacted as children, given that SAGE spent much of her childhood at Lincoln Laboratory, the place of TX-0's birth and early life. Yet there are no canon accounts of SAGE and TX-0-tan interacting, something that seems inconsistent given SAGE-tan's apparently clear recollection of her childhood and tendency for writing about her early life and family. It has been suggested that SAGE-tan blamed TX-0-tan for the eventual death of Whirlwind-tan and purposefully excluded TX-0-tan from written accounts out of spite.<br />
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Although TX-0-tan is only genetically-related to the PDP-1 bloodline, she is ancestral to the [[DEC Military | DEC Faction]], having directly inspired the creation of that group.<br />
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==History and background==<br />
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[[Category:Mainframe]][[Category:Historical]][[Category:MIT]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=Memory_Test_Computer&diff=4254Memory Test Computer2013-04-14T18:20:18Z<p>Bella: </p>
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{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = mtcavi.png<br />
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|cname = Memory Test Computer<br />
|alias = MTC<br />
|hname = Mneme Olsen<br />
|debut = 2011<br />
|height = 5'6"<br />
|haircolor= Blonde<br />
|eyecolor= Golden-brown<br />
|weapon = N/A<br />
|apfaction = Formerly of the MIT Society<br />
|lineage= MIT; ancestral to [[DEC Military | DEC]]<br />
|rival= N/A<br />
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|osper = Memory Test Computer<br />
|osdev = MIT, Lincoln Labs<br />
|reldate = Circa 1950s(?)<br />
|lastrel = Unknown<br />
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}}<br />
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==Technical details==<br />
The Memory Test Computer is a system built to test the core memory of the Whirlwind computer. In some ways it resembled Whirlwind, and was thought to be used in SAGE's early development by some accounts.<br />
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==Character details==<br />
===General===<br />
Appearance-wise, Memory Test Computer-tan (MTC-tan) has lightly tanned skin, golden eyes and dark blonde or light brown hair, shoulder length and flipped at the ends. Her bangs are curled back, and resemble a popular women's hairstyle of the 40's. She wears a old-timey nurse outfit with a blue gingham dress, white pinafore and hat. She is slightly shorter than Whirlwind, but has similar proportions, since MTC has the same amount of memory and same processing speed as Whirlwind. <br />
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MTC-tan was purpose-built as Whirlwind's nurse and assistant. She is loyal, compassionate, and intelligent, but wasn't able to use her mind to its fullest potential (referencing the fact that the MTC did not have any software or hardware support.) Nevertheless, she is well-trained as a nurse and is a competent caretaker.<br />
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===Family and relationships===<br />
Whirlwind's connection to [[SAGE]], [[TX-0]] and [[PDP-1]]-tan is well-known, but MTC's relationship to those computer-tans is less documented. Indeed, MTC contributed to the design of all three children - to the point where she could be considered a second mother of sorts. Although TX-0-tan seems to have viewed MTC-tan as a parent, it is unclear whether or not the other children viewed her as their mom - and if they did, whether they considered her as much a parent as Whirlwind. <br />
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For the most part, Whirlwind was MTC-tan's reason for being, as she was literally created to look after her. Because of this, MTC-tan harbors a deep love for, and dependance on, Whirlwind - and there is conjecture that she may have felt romantic affection for her superior. However, Whirlwind-tan doesn't seem to have returned these romantic feelings, being seemingly uninterested in such matters. <br />
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==History and background==<br />
==Theories and Notes==<br />
Along with Whirlwind, MTC-tan can be considered the earliest ancestor of the DEC Society. <br />
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MTC-tan's gold eyes and hair are purported to be an allusion to the flaxen-haired PDP-1 and (in part) golden-eyed SAGE-tan. <br />
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[[Category:Mainframe]][[Category:Historical]][[Category:MIT]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=SAGE&diff=4253SAGE2013-04-14T17:57:46Z<p>Bella: </p>
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|tanname= SAGE<br />
|image= YoungSAGE.png<br />
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|cname= SAGE<br />
|alias= Semi Automatic Ground Environment, "Whirlwind II"<br />
|hname= Gina Forrester<br />
|debut= Jan 2008<br />
|height= 162 cm (5'4")<br />
|haircolor= Medium brown<br />
|eyecolor= Blue with yellow or gold patches<br />
|weapon= Missile launcher, makeshift weapons<br />
|apfaction= [[Wanderer Class]], formerly associated with the MIT Society<br />
|lineage= MIT, via Whirlwind<br />
|rival= [[UNIX]], enemy bombers, most microcomputer-tans, birds<br />
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|osper= Semi Automatic Ground Environment (system) and AN/FSQ-7 (hardware)<br />
|osdev= MIT Lincoln Laboratory<br />
|reldate= Jan 1959<br />
|lastrel= Circa 1983<br />
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==Technical Details== <br />
Built for the US Air Force by MIT, IBM and SDC, the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment was a heavily integrated air battle management network active from the late fifties to early eighties. While ineffective against ballistic missiles, it was the best answer to the threat of bomber based attack. An early user of what would become modems and the internet, interactive systems, and other advanced computing methods, SAGE pioneered many technologies that we take for granted in the modern age. <br />
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==Character Details== <br />
====General====<br />
[[File:SAGEavi.png|left|thumb|100px|SAGE-tan as an adult]]<br />
SAGE-tan is depicted as a woman of average build and height, with long brown hair typically tied up in dual buns. She is described as being rather pale-skinned, having heterochromatic blue and yellow eyes, wearing glasses to correct her severe farsightedness and routinely donning red and white checkered ribbons, having inherited her love of ribbons from her mother. During her time in the Air Force, she wore a contemporary womens' USAF uniform, though some drawn depictions put her in an elaborate, antiquated-looking military-style coat, with a ruffled shirt and ascot, puffy pants and boots. She sold off most of her fine wardrobe after her retirement; today, she dresses mainly in plain clothes, although her old uniform overcoat is still a favorite piece. <br />
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====Powers====<br />
SAGE-tan's powers remain somewhat mysterious. It is confirmed that she could see light frequencies outside of the human visual spectrum, in particular, certain radio frequencies associated with radar. Her eyes could not actually process radio frequencies themselves; she accomplished this using a second power, the ability to mentally-connect with other OS- and hardware-tans and "tap into" their sensory systems. So as long as SAGE-tan was "connected" to her radar stations, she could see in radio. Similarly, she seems to have used her assistant, [[IBM 728]]-kun, as a memory storage device, since separation from him has diminished her once-sharp memory. <br />
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It has also been suggested that SAGE possessed superhuman strength, and may have had slight precognitive abilities. <br />
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====Personality====<br />
Due to the series of mental and emotional breaks that she has undergone, it is difficult to pin down SAGE-tan's personality, or tell which emotional features are her true personality and which are just the effects of her dementia. <br />
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Judging by what has been written, SAGE-tan was a kind, inquisitive, if not somewhat peevish child, and throughout her early life she acted with courtesy, professionalism and commitment to her job - protecting the United States from the then-looming threat of nuclear war. Her personality seems to have been, at once, prickly and endearing; many of her chronicles document her as having normal, if not somewhat awkward, interactions with her friends and coworkers, and there was little evidence of the mental disorder that would later manifest itself. <br />
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A number of factors have been cited as causing her state of psychosis, among them: inherent flaws in her design, separation from her family in her youth, her usefulness being called into question almost as soon as she was debuted, her easily-baffled sensory systems and near-uselessness against the threat of ICBMs; the trauma of having many of her radar stations killed off in the 1960s, witnessing her mother die after a living for more than a decade in a state of grave illness, having an unauthorized clone made ([[SABRE]]-tan), and the passing of her beloved daughter, [[BUIC]], as well as general neglect, abandonment, and being thrust ever farther into a world alien from the idyllic one in which she grew up. <br />
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By all accounts, 1983 is the year that SAGE finally "snapped". When her final radar stations were shut down, she was all but blinded, and the death of IBM 728 destroyed her powers of memory. Devoid of her vision, memories and in a state of severe psychological illness that included bouts of extreme violence, paranoia and delusions, she ran off into the wild, where she began living a meager, drifter-like existence, inhabiting her abandoned radar sites and only occasionally venturing into society or interacting with old friends of family. Her life is one of near-total solitude and loneliness, although writing seems to give her some measure of comfort. <br />
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It should be noted that all of this must be called into question - most of the information regarding SAGE-tan's personality has been gleaned from a collection of journal-style stories, which are written in an intentionally-unreliable first-person narrative. Because of this, we may never be able to know exactly what SAGE's personality is, or what her motives are. <br />
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===Family and relationships===<br />
SAGE-tan is [[Whirlwind]]-tan's first-born child and the elder sister of [[TX-0]], [[PDP-1]] and [[CTSS]]-tan. Although separated by distance, her relationship with her mother was close and affectionate. Her relationships with her sisters varied - she seemed to treat PDP-1-tan as a pesky little sister, respect CTSS-tan, bute view her as ultimately weak; and all but ignore TX-0. She has two daughters; the eldest, BUIC-tan, is her backup system, and despite having a mutually-loving relationship, SAGE rarely was able to visit with her due to reasons of national security. Her relationship with her second daughter, SABRE-tan, is strained and fraught with hatred and feelings of betrayal, since SABRE is an "clone" of SAGE-tan created by IBM without her permission. <br />
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Growing up, SAGE-tan had a number of friends - mostly human, some computer - at Lincoln Laboratory, her closest being GENIAC-chan, the small and simple computer-tan who she semi-adopted. Later on, she made friends with numerous Air Force computer and hardware systems, notably Univac 1050-II, [[FASTRAND]], LIFT-tan, and the various radar station -tans and -kuns who made up her system. Her nearest friend was arguably IBM 728-kun, whom she viewed less as acquaintance and more as a brother. <br />
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While SAGE started off hating [[Multics]]-tan, her impression of Multics softened after they worked together at Rome AFB in the 1970s, and they begun a somewhat tumultuous friendship that lasts to this day. Similarly, SAGE befriended [[DTSS]], one of her sister CTSS' close acquaintances, as well as [[Apple III]]-tan.<br />
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While a startlingly large number of "ships" involving SAGE have been proposed, few canon romantic relationships exist. SAGE/FASTRAND has been hinted at before in-story and outright stated in one alternate-universe tale, but it remains unclear whether or not it is canonical. Similarly, one alternate-universe story paired SAGE and Apple III-tan together, and it has since been accepted as canon to SAGE-tan's original creator. Some interpretations show SAGE and Multics in a relationship, with Multics being dominant over SAGE. <br />
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SAGE-tan has many enemies, both real and perceived. She hates Unix, ITS and WAITS, and her vitriol toward Unix is at least partially-returned. During her days in service, enemy bombers were a very real threat for her to fight against, but was helpless against ICBMs. Birds are perceived to be enemies just the same, referring to SAGE's radars detecting birds as well as bombers. She also looks down on the microcomputer-tans as being worthless or beneath her, making an exemption for GENIAC-tan. However, her condescending attitude towards microcomputers didn't stop her from visiting the [[Binteeji Renmei]] to reunite with GENIAC-tan, and has accidentally made friends with some of the other microcomputer-tans there.<br />
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==History and background==<br />
==Theories and Alternate Interpretations==<br />
====Life after shutdown?====<br />
Typically, when an OS-tan looses all of her installations and user-base, she dies. Yet somehow SAGE-tan has remained alive, nearly 30 years after her last sites were shut down. A number of theories have been devised to explain this anomaly, but none have been confirmed. These theories run the gamut from outlandish to mundane: that SAGE was born as, or became, a physical god; that she was so powerful in her life that she can exist without any installations; and the out-of-universe explanation that it was simply more interesting to make SAGE-tan a living character than a deceased one. <br />
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====SAGE isn't completely blind====<br />
When SAGE got disconnected from her radars and decommissioned, the most common interpretation is that she became nearly, or completely blind. Another interpretation is that when she was in service, she had superhuman levels of vision, and was able to see in the radio spectrum, but lost those abilities after being decommissioned. She might still see normally as a human can, but her vision became severely compromised compared to what it was before. <br />
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====She brought Multics from the dead====<br />
As for how Multics was brought back from the dead, it's known that the necromancer [[Plan 9|Plan 9-tan]] didn't do it because the resurrected Multics has her free will intact and doesn't show signs of dying off again. SAGE may have found a way to bring others from the dead using advanced technology, and having cheated death herself. In a state of loneliness and mental decay, and even possible feelings for her, she may have brought Multics from the dead. She may have done this not just to see her again, but to also have her kill off UNIX at last, because SAGE hates UNIX and knew that Multics nearly killed her. <br />
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While Multics never got her powers back, and can't fight, SAGE cared enough to send Multics to the Binteeji Renmei instead of leaving her to die. <br />
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==Fanworks==<br />
Because of the high volume of SAGE-tan writings and artworks, please refer to this [[List of works depicting SAGE]].<br />
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[[Category:Historical]][[Category:Mainframe]][[Category:IBM]][[Category:MIT]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=PDP-1&diff=4252PDP-12013-04-14T17:42:13Z<p>Bella: </p>
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|image = Pdp1.png<br />
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|cname = PDP-1<br />
|alias = Programmable Data Processor-1<br />
|hname = Penelope Olsen (Penelope Gurley has also been suggested)<br />
|debut = Jan. 2010<br />
|height = 137cm (4'6'')<br />
|haircolor= Blonde<br />
|eyecolor= Blue<br />
|weapon = Slingshot <br />
|apfaction = Formerly of the [[DEC Military]], currently [[Binteeji Renmei]]<br />
|lineage= MIT Society via [[Whirlwind]] and [[TX-0]]; founder of the DECs<br />
|rival= IBM mainframes<br />
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|osper = PDP-1<br />
|osdev = Digital Equipment Corporation<br />
|reldate = 1959<br />
|lastrel = 1969<br />
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==Technical details== <br />
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A product of MIT's TX-0 (and earlier Whirlwind) project, the PDP-1 is an early influential mainframe computer. It is known as being the ancestor of the PDP computer line and influencing many minicomputers of the 1960s. Among its contributions to and firsts in computing: being one of the smallest and cheapest computers of its day, implementing the first commercially available graphics terminal and first word-processing programs, computer games, and being used to create electronic music. 53 units were sold – the first going to MIT – and as late as 1970, all were reported to be still in use. <br />
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Three PDP-1 units still exist, all residing in the Computer History Museum's collection. <br />
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==Character details==<br />
====General====<br />
PDP-1 is a small preadolescent girl with blonde hair typically tied into twin buns and blue eyes. She wears round glasses, a blue and white uniform and carries a slingshot. She has an innocent, child-like attitude, but is notoriously feisty, as evidenced by her great tenacity and resourcefulness. She's nonviolent for the most part but not above stirring up a row with another OS-tan – IBMs and other large mainframes are a favorite target of hers'. <br />
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Favourites include gaming, writing and playing baroque classical pieces on the piano, as well as model railroading and amateur electronics. <br />
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==History and background==<br />
PDP-1 is the daughter of [[Whirlwind | Whirlwind]], younger sister of [[SAGE | SAGE]] and [[TX-0]] and elder sister of [[CTSS | CTSS]]. The first DEC-tan, she was born in Maynard in the late 1950s and debuted in Boston in 1959, where she subsequently lived with her mother and sister. The pet of the MIT computer department, she forged many friendships with students and professors who relished teaching the clever girl new things. Her relationship with Whirlwind was affectionate and close but she was more distant from two of her three sisters; CTSS running in an entirely different group and SAGE living far away for the most part (on the occasions she did meet with SAGE she tended to treat her with curiosity and mock-rivalry; looking at her sibling as a sort of archetypal brooding big sis in need of some lightening-up). PDP-1 and TX-0-tan had a close relationship, both emotionally and geographically - the two girls were best of friends and ran in the same social circle. <br />
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She became fast friends with the younger generation of MIT OS-tans, ironically becoming a sort of universal “little sister” to all.<br />
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Her duties were also required at DEC. The mother of the PDP family, she also became the matriarch of all DEC-tans – hardwares and OSes alike. PDP-1's determination led her tiny nation to many early victories – notably against the IBM hegemony. Their successes inspired many nascent tribes to take aim at the established hierarchy and marked a shift in computer society; one that would result in the eventual overthrow of the Mainframes. <br />
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In 1973 Whirlwind and CTSS died; PDP-1 was devastated but accepting of their fates, and it had little permanent impact on her optimistic outlook. Even as her usefulness was eclipsed by more powerful computer-tans, she remained a beloved figure and stepped into a comfortable retirement. A honourary member of the Bintenji Renmei, she chooses to live separate from the group; instead, residing in a community of vintage computers in California. She often visits her fellow DEC-tans and continues to hunt for SAGE, in hopes of reuniting her entire family.<br />
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[[Category:MIT]][[Category:DEC]][[Category:Binteeji Renmei]][[Category:Mainframe]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=TX-0&diff=4251TX-02013-04-14T03:48:10Z<p>Bella: </p>
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{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = tx0avi.png<br />
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|cname = TX-0<br />
|alias = Tixo, Transistorized Experimental computer zero<br />
|hname = <br />
|debut = 2012<br />
|height = 5'3"<br />
|haircolor= Brown<br />
|eyecolor= Green<br />
|weapon = N/A<br />
|apfaction = Formerly of the MIT-tan quasi-faction<br />
|lineage= MIT, DEC (ancestor) <br />
|rival= N/A<br />
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|osper = TX-0<br />
|osdev = MIT, Lincoln Labs<br />
|reldate = 1955<br />
|lastrel = Circa 1960s<br />
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}}<br />
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==Technical details==<br />
TX-0 is a transistorized version of the Whirlwind mainframe, and the PDP-1 was derived from it.<br />
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==Character details==<br />
===General===<br />
TX-0-tan is [[Whirlwind]]-tan's second daughter, created from the results of Whirlwind's experimental surgeries. Physically-speaking, TX-0-tan has light skin, shoulder-length dark brown hair with long, side-swept bangs, green eyes and thick-rimmed glasses. She resembles a physically smaller and younger version of her mother; honest, intelligent and dignified, she has inherited many of her mother's personality traits as well. Her outfits are simpler than her mother's, but she still retains a strong sense of style - preferring contemporary 1950s and 1960s clothing, in particular a brown and tan pinstriped two-piece outfit with hat. Like her sisters, she inherited Whirlwind's love for hair ribbons and computer part jewelry.<br />
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Mentally-speaking, TX-0-tan has roughly the maturity of a late teen - she is more sophisticated than her little sister, [[PDP-1]]-tan, but not quite as shrewd as her mother or elder sister, [[SAGE]]. Nevertheless, she is well-educated and highly creative, having a particular knack for visual arts, drafting and design. One of the first interactive computers, TX-0-tan is capable of interacting directly with users, instead of needing operators as intermediaries. This lends her something of a reputation as a people-person, although less so than the extravagantly social timesharing systems that postdated her. <br />
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===Family and relationships===<br />
TX-0 tan is derived from Whirlwind-tan (primarily) and [[Memory Test Computer]] (secondarily), although she treated both parents with respect and kindness, she was particularly reverent toward Whirlwind. Her sisters are SAGE, [[CTSS]] and PDP-1-tan, although there is some uncertainty involving her relationship to the latter - genetically-speaking, PDP-1-tan is partially derived from TX-0-tan, causing some to suggest that PDP-1-tan may if fact be her daughter rather than sister. However, it is quite clear that TX-0 considered PDP-1-tan her sister and Whirlwind her mother. <br />
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Because of scant documentation and speculation, little is known of TX-0-tan's relationship with Whirlwind or SAGE. Judging by Whirlwind's treatment of other daughters, we can safely assume that she had a mutually-affectionate relationship with TX-0-tan; TX-0 likely spent more time with Whirlwind than SAGE or CTSS did, due to a shared geographic location and similar fields of work. As well, TX-0 and PDP-1-tan spent much time together, being employed in the same laboratory and working with many of the same users on similar projects. Fans of model trains and amateur electrical engineering, the two frequented the Tech Model Railroad Club and their work laid the basis for the hacker culture which would emerge at MIT several years later. <br />
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TX-0-tan's relationship with SAGE is a subject of speculation. It seems inevitable that SAGE and TX-0 interacted as children, given that SAGE spent much of her childhood at Lincoln Laboratory, the place of TX-0's birth and early life. Yet there are no canon accounts of SAGE and TX-0-tan interacting, something that seems inconsistent given SAGE-tan's apparently clear recollection of her childhood and tendency for writing about her early life and family. It has been suggested that SAGE-tan blamed TX-0-tan for the eventual death of Whirlwind-tan and purposefully excluded TX-0-tan from written accounts out of spite.<br />
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Although TX-0-tan is only genetically-related to the PDP-1 bloodline, she is ancestral to the [[DEC Military | DEC Faction]], having directly inspired the creation of that group.<br />
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==History and background==<br />
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[[Category:Mainframe]][[Category:Historic]][[Category:MIT]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=TX-0&diff=4250TX-02013-04-14T03:45:37Z<p>Bella: </p>
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{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = tx0avi.png<br />
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|cname = TX-0<br />
|alias = Tixo, Transistorized Experimental computer zero<br />
|hname = <br />
|debut = 2012<br />
|height = 5'3"<br />
|haircolor= Brown<br />
|eyecolor= Green<br />
|weapon = N/A<br />
|apfaction = Formerly of the MIT-tan quasi-faction<br />
|lineage= MIT, DEC (ancestor) <br />
|rival= N/A<br />
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|osper = TX-0<br />
|osdev = MIT, Lincoln Labs<br />
|reldate = 1955<br />
|lastrel = Circa 1960s<br />
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}}<br />
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==Technical details==<br />
TX-0 is a transistorized version of the Whirlwind mainframe, and the PDP-1 was derived from it.<br />
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==Character details==<br />
===General===<br />
TX-0-tan is [[Whirlwind]]-tan's second daughter, created from the results of Whirlwind's experimental surgeries. Physically-speaking, TX-0-tan has light skin, shoulder-length dark brown hair with long, side-swept bangs, green eyes and thick-rimmed glasses. She resembles a physically smaller and younger version of her mother; earnest, has inherited many of her personality traits as well. Her outfits are simpler than her mother's, but she still retains a strong sense of style - preferring contemporary 1950s and 1960s clothing, in particular a brown and tan pinstriped two-piece outfit with hat. Like her sisters, she inherited Whirlwind's love for hair ribbons and computer part jewelry.<br />
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Mentally-speaking, TX-0-tan has roughly the maturity of a late teen - she is more sophisticated than her little sister, [[PDP-1]]-tan, but not quite as shrewd as her mother or elder sister, [[SAGE]]. Nevertheless, she is clever, well-educated and highly creative, having a particular knack for visual arts, drafting and design. One of the first interactive computers, TX-0-tan is capable of interacting directly with users, instead of needing operators as intermediaries. This lends her something of a reputation as a people-person, although less so than the extravagantly social timesharing systems that postdated her. <br />
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===Family and relationships===<br />
TX-0 tan is derived from Whirlwind-tan (primarily) and [[Memory Test Computer]] (secondarily), although she treated both parents with respect and kindness, she was particularly reverent toward Whirlwind. Her sisters are SAGE, [[CTSS]] and PDP-1-tan, although there is some uncertainty involving her relationship to the latter - genetically-speaking, PDP-1-tan is partially derived from TX-0-tan, causing some to suggest that PDP-1-tan may if fact be her daughter rather than sister. However, it is quite clear that TX-0 considered PDP-1-tan her sister and Whirlwind her mother. <br />
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Because of scant documentation and speculation, little is known of TX-0-tan's relationship with Whirlwind or SAGE. Judging by Whirlwind's treatment of other daughters, we can safely assume that she had a mutually-affectionate relationship with TX-0-tan; TX-0 likely spent more time with Whirlwind than SAGE or CTSS did, due to a shared geographic location and similar fields of work. As well, TX-0 and PDP-1-tan spent much time together, being employed in the same laboratory and working with many of the same users on similar projects. Fans of model trains and amateur electrical engineering, the two frequented the Tech Model Railroad Club and their work laid the basis for the hacker culture which would emerge at MIT several years later. <br />
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TX-0-tan's relationship with SAGE is a subject of speculation. It seems inevitable that SAGE and TX-0 interacted as children, given that SAGE spent much of her childhood at Lincoln Laboratory, the place of TX-0's birth and early life. Yet there are no canon accounts of SAGE and TX-0-tan interacting, something that seems inconsistent given SAGE-tan's apparently clear recollection of her childhood and tendency for writing about her early life and family. It has been suggested that SAGE-tan blamed TX-0-tan for the eventual death of Whirlwind-tan and purposefully excluded TX-0-tan from written accounts out of spite.<br />
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Although TX-0-tan is only genetically-related to the PDP-1 bloodline, she is ancestral to the [[DEC Military | DEC Faction]], having directly inspired the creation of that group.<br />
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==History and background==<br />
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[[Category:Mainframe]][[Category:Historic]][[Category:MIT]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=TRS-80_Color_Computer&diff=4249TRS-80 Color Computer2013-04-04T04:11:42Z<p>Bella: </p>
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{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = cocoavi.png<br />
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|cname = TRS-80 Color Computer<br />
|alias = CoCo<br />
|hname = <br />
|debut = Late 2006<br />
|height = <br />
|haircolor= Coffee brown<br />
|eyecolor= Turquoise<br />
|weapon = <br />
|apfaction = <br />
|lineage= TRS-80<br />
|rival= [[Commodore VIC-20 | VIC-20]], [[Commodore 64 | C64]], [[Apple II]]<br />
<br />
|osper = TRS-80 Color Computer<br />
|osdev = Tandy Corporation<br />
|reldate = 1980<br />
|lastrel = 1990<br />
}}<br />
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==Technical details==<br />
The original TRS-80 was Tandy Corporation's desktop microcomputer model line, sold through Tandy's RadioShack stores in the late 1970s and 1980s. Hobbyists, home users, and small-businesses were the intended consumers, and the endearment of the TRS-80 computer by its users resulted in a successful venture for Tandy Corporation. It was improved in later years as the TRS-80 Color Computer, often referred to as CoCo by its users, which started out as a joint venture between Fort Worth based Tandy Corporation and (then) Austin based Motorola Semiconductor, Inc. to develop a low cost home computer in 1977.<br />
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==Character details==<br />
====Creation====<br />
CoCo-tan was created in late 2006 by C-Chan and Zerodin to personify the TRS-80 Color Computer, a derivative of the very popular Tandy TRS-80 with color capabilities.<br />
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====General====<br />
CoCo-tan is commonly depicted as a young Hispanic woman with caramel skintone and short dark brown hair. She commonly wears stereotypical 1980's-style clothing, being originally depicted by her creator as dressing in a black tube top with colorful accents, tight rubber shorts and flashy gold earrings, lampooning the trashy persona of the TRS-80. Her appearance and personality are known to cause quite a lot of disturbance, referencing the massive RF interference the TRS-80 caused in surrounding electronics.<br />
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====Family and Relationships====<br />
While the relation between CoCo and [[TRS-DOS | TRS-80]]-tan has not been explored, it is probably safe to assume that the two are related, at lest in part. <br />
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[[Category:Vintage]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=ITS&diff=4248ITS2013-04-04T03:58:51Z<p>Bella: </p>
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<div>{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = Itsavi.png<br />
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|cname = ITS-tan<br />
|alias = Incompatible Timesharing System<br />
|hname = Izzy Knight<br />
|debut = Dec 2007<br />
|height = 163 cm (5'4")<br />
|haircolor= Brown<br />
|eyecolor= Brown<br />
|weapon = Firearms<br />
|apfaction = [[Wanderer Class]]<br />
|lineage= MIT<br />
|rival= Unix<br />
<br />
|osper = Incompatible Time Sharing System<br />
|osdev = MIT<br />
|reldate = 1960's<br />
|lastrel = unknown (discontinued by 1990)<br />
}}<br />
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==Technical details==<br />
[[wikipedia: Incompatible_Timesharing_System| ITS]] (Incompatible Timesharing System) was developed by the MIT AI Lab in the late 1960s and is one of the first OSes of the original [[wikipedia: Hacker_(programmer_subculture) | hacker culture]]. Nimble, small and optimized to within an inch of its life, ITS originally ran on the PDP-6 and was later ported to the PDP-10 mainframe. It employed many novel security features: it did not have any passwords at first, featured a command to allow users to purposely crash it (thus diminishing the fun of it) and allowed users to spy on and interfere with one another. MIT finally shut down its ITS machines in 1990 (an event that more-or-less ended their venerable hacker society); Sweden's Stacken Computer Club retired its installation, the last in the world, in 1995. ITS is still available for hobbyist use under emulators.<br />
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==Character details==<br />
ITS-tan is a small, androgynous-looking young woman with short brown hair and yellow-brown eyes. She is sometimes depicted in a steampunk-style outfit with button up shirt, a waistcoat, jeans, a bow-tie, goggles and boots, although this is regarded as something of "formal"-wear - her typical day-to-day attire usually consisting of more casual attire. Her hobbies include riding her vintage motorbike, as well as sport shooting; she is an expert marksman and is often depicted with a holstered pistol on one hip. A recurring theme in her design is the dragon – referencing ITS' dragons, processes analogous to Unix's daemons. <br />
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Offbeat, adventurous and rebellious, she enjoys traveling and speaks fluently in hacker slang. While she displays antagonism toward her fellow MIT OS-tans – accusing them of being too complex and elephantine – she conducts herself with tact and good humour for the most part.<br />
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==History and background==<br />
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ITS was born in the late 1960s. Like [[Multics | Multics]], she was taken under the wing of [[CTSS | CTSS]]-sensei for schooling, something she thoroughly rejected; trading book-learning for street smarts, she opted for a liberated life among the hackers, a group of free-thinking minds who reject the ways of the corporate world – believing instead in community and the free exchange of ideas and information. She learned marksmanship and motorcycling in her youth and took up traveling, during which time she encountered other like-minded OS-tans.<br />
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While [[UNIX | Unix]] seems to share much in common with ITS, she in fact possesses a strong vitriol for Unix that lasts to this day; accusing her of being a part of a massive conspiracy to more or less “take over the world” – and theorizing that her behavior and means are far more akin to a Virus than an OS-tan (sentiments shared by many of her peers). It is unknown whether or not ITS realises that Unix is essentially her cousin and if this knowledge would affect her treatment of Unix. <br />
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In the mid-1970s, ITS raised young [[Emacs | Emacs-kun]] and taught him the ways of their people. During her travels she came to know [[WAITS | WAITS]] and [[TOPS-20 | Tenex]] well; together they penned the Jargon File, the compendium of hacker folklore, language and ethics. But their culture, like so many before would prove to be short-lived. The encroaching Unixes and DEC-tans slowly eroded their society and by the mid-1980s, ITS was kept on only as an homage to a quainter time; in 1990, she was kicked out of MIT in favour of her rivals. The blame for this can partially be placed on ITS; while an ardent advocate of the hacker culture, she was also rather unmotivated. Hardheaded and attached to her ways, she resisted change even even when it might have benefited her – and never fought particularly hard to keep her society alive. <br />
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Bitter but hopeful, ITS settled in Sweden but left a few years afterward; currently living as a wanderer, she has found a small measure of popularity among hobbyists. She has no children or proper relatives, although she does consider Emacs her son and [[Linux | Linux]] to be a spiritual-descendant and often visits them.<br />
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==Theories and notes==<br />
It has been speculated that ITS-tan may not identify as female, but instead agender. Proponents of this view point to her androgynous demeanor and style of dress, and her rejection of any kind of strongly gendered behavior.<br />
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[[Category:Mainframe]][[Category: Historical]][[Category:MIT]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=PTS-DOS&diff=4247PTS-DOS2013-04-04T03:48:50Z<p>Bella: </p>
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<div>{{OSinfobox<br />
|image= PTSDOS.png<br />
|imgsize= 100x100px<br />
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|cname= PTS-DOS-tan<br />
|alias = <br />
|hname = <br />
|debut = Sep 2006<br />
|height = <br />
|haircolor= Periwinkle blue<br />
|eyecolor= Lilac<br />
|weapon = <br />
|apfaction = [[DOSSE]]<br />
|lineage= DOS<br />
|rival= <br />
<br />
|osper= PTS-DOS<br />
|osdev= PhysTechSoft<br />
|reldate= PTS-DOS 6.4 (late 1993)<br />
|lastrel= PTS-DOS 32 (release date unknown) <br />
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|fnote= The first version of PTS-DOS was numbered 6.4 to match the version number of the current MS-DOS version of the time. <br />
}}<br />
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==Character details==<br />
PTSDOS-tan personifies PTS-DOS, a disk operating system developed in Russia by PhysTechSoft and is a clone of MS-DOS certified by the Russian Military. She is personified as a light blue-haired woman with Russian-style braided hair, traditional schoolgirl ribbons and contemporary clothing embroidered with PTSDOS written in Cyrillic. She is a master of reverse engineering and can work wonders with technology that seems impossible to decipher and software that seem impossible to duplicate. PTS-DOS-tan is usually accompanied by [[PCDOS | PC-DOS-tan]] the most out of all the DOS sisters, given that PCDOS-tan (like many others) assumes that she can only understand Russian, and therefore confidently vents all her problems and emotional distress onto her. <br />
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She speaks only Russian but can understand other languages. To those that understand her she is witty, highly knowledgeable in history, philosophy and the arts. But to most people that don't understand her she appears to be apathetic because she can't respond back to them. Because there are very few who can properly communicate with her, she tends to keep to herself. Though she has a level of maturity that betrays her physical age, she is mischievous and likes to take advantage of the language barrier by pulling pranks and uttering smart remarks. She is however also very sensitive to the wants and needs of her sisters and friends, and will gladly help them from behind the scenes even if she doesn't get anything in return. <br />
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See also:<br />
*[[List of OS-tans]]<br />
*[[PCDOS]]<br />
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[[Category:DOS]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=95_OSR_2.5&diff=424295 OSR 2.52013-03-04T03:31:04Z<p>Bella: </p>
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<div>{{OSinfobox<br />
|tanname= Windows 95 OSR 2.5-tan<br />
|image= Win95osr2-5.jpg<br />
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|cname= Windows 95 OSR 2.5-tan<br />
|alias= OSR 2.5-sama, 95C<br />
|debut= Unknown<br />
|height= 153 cm (5'0")<br />
|haircolor= brown<br />
|eyecolor= red<br />
|apfaction= [[Wanderer Class]]<br />
|lineage= [[Win9x| DOS/Win9x]]<br />
<br />
|osper= Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2.5 (95C)<br />
|osdev= Microsoft<br />
|reldate= 26 Nov 1997<br />
|lastrel= OEM Service Release 2.5 v 4.03.1214 (1997)<br />
}}<br />
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==Character Details==<br />
95 OSR 2.5-tan, also known as 2.5-tan, is an original character created for a Japanese 4koma that resembles the original [[95-tan | Windows 95-tan]] but with shorter hair and wearing more Westernized clothing. She personifies OSR 2.5, the last patched version of Windows 95. She also has a more extroverted personality than 95-tan. She appeared out of the shadow of the OSes to challenge the 98 series and seems to regard [[Windows 98|98-tan]] especially as a rival, but no matter what she does to 98, the other OS regards her as a well-meaning friend. She is sometimes seen wearing a black skirt, black gloves, and a white sleeveless shirt like 98, but with a red tie and black 95 style bow.<br />
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==OSC Notes==<br />
Though OSR 2.5-tan was likely meant as a one-shot character in the aforementioned 4koma panels, she has achieved a mild level of popularity in the OS-tan Collections forum. Not only has she been depicted or included in various drawings by different OSC artists, but she has also been assigned a weapon in line with the warrior lineage of [[95-tan]]. The weapon is a Jutte, or a sword-breaking device previously used by law enforcement officers in Japan's Edo Period. This was done to reference (and historically parallel) Microsoft Windows' own transition from a warring period (mid-90's, when it's future was not yet secured) to its era of dominance and prosperity in the desktop market beginning with Windows 98. <br />
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A [[95 OSR 2.1-tan | Windows 95 OSR 2.1-tan]], only briefly mentioned in passing in the aforementioned 4Koma panels, has also been created by OSC artist Aurora as part of the effort to grow OSR 2.5-tan beyond the level of a one-shot character.<br />
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See also:<br />
*[[List of OS-tans]][[Category:Windows]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=Puppy_Linux&diff=4241Puppy Linux2013-03-04T03:30:23Z<p>Bella: </p>
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{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = puppyavi.png <br />
<br />
|cname = Puppy Linux-tan<br />
|alias = Puppy-chan<br />
|debut = 2007<br />
|height = 145 cm (4'9")<br />
|haircolor= blonde<br />
|eyecolor= brown<br />
|apfaction = [[Linux Unix Consortium]]<br />
|lineage= Linux, unknown branch<br />
<br />
|osper = Puppy Linux<br />
|osdev = Barry Kauler<br />
|reldate = circa 2005<br />
|lastrel = circa 2010<br />
}}<br />
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==Technical Details==<br />
Puppy Linux is a lightweight, user-friendly Linux distro.<br />
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==Character Details==<br />
Puppy Linux-tan was first drawn by an artist known as Bella. Puppy Linux-tan is the personification of Puppy Linux, a small, lightweight distro, most often run entirely off of a computer's RAM; Via LiveCD, USB drive, etc.<br />
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Puppy Linux-tan is depicted as a blonde haired, brown eyed dog-girl of small stature. She's of a young age, both as a reference to the distro's name (puppy) and as the distro's unusually small size.<br />
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Her attitude is spirited and energetic (due to her young age, and as an injoke referring to Puppy Linux's speed). She enjoys playing with other dog-girls (both Linux and otherwise) and sometimes chases cat-girls, though always in good fun.<br />
She's also a bit tomboyish, not one for frills or fancy dresses. Sometimes, though, she will wear a Windows 98-tan-like schoolgirl outfit. Both are references to Puppy Linux's somewhat utilitarian, and Windows 95/98-like GUI.<br />
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[[Category:Linux]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=Outlook&diff=4240Outlook2013-03-04T03:28:06Z<p>Bella: </p>
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<div>{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = Outlook.png<br />
|imgsize= 200x200px<br />
<br />
|cname = Outlook Express<br />
|alias = Outlook <br />
|hname = <br />
|debut = <br />
|height = <br />
|haircolor= Yellow-blonde<br />
|eyecolor= Green<br />
|weapon = <br />
|apfaction = Associate of the [[Windows Family]]<br />
|lineage= Microsoft<br />
|rival=<br />
<br />
|osper = Microsoft Outlook Express<br />
|osdev = Microsoft<br />
|reldate = 1996<br />
|lastrel = 2005<br />
}}<br />
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==Technical details==<br />
Outlook Express is an email and news client which came bundled with Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 4.0 through 6.0. It was replaced by Windows Mail.<br />
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==Character details==<br />
Outlook-tan is most often drawn as a blonde girl in a blue maid uniform, complete with a white apron and orange collar bow. She also has a red ring which slants around here head. In many renditions, she is shown delivering mail to the OS-tans.<br />
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See also:<br />
*[[List of OS-tans]]<br />
[[Category:Software]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=Photoshop&diff=4239Photoshop2013-03-04T03:24:11Z<p>Bella: </p>
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<div>{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = photoshop.png<br />
|imgsize= 200x200px<br />
<br />
|cname = Adobe Photoshop<br />
|alias = <br />
|hname = <br />
|debut = 2007<br />
|height = <br />
|haircolor= Sandy brown<br />
|eyecolor= Green<br />
|weapon = <br />
|apfaction = <br />
|lineage= <br />
|rival= <br />
<br />
|osper = Various Adobe Photoshop releases<br />
|osdev = Adobe Systems<br />
|reldate = 1989<br />
|lastrel = 2012<br />
}}<br />
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==Technical details==<br />
Photoshop-tan is the personification of the Photoshop image editing program made by Adobe Systems. First posted by Infinity Zero (to the best of my knowledge). Usually represented with a giant pen, pink hair and a mini-skirt, with a billowing transparent half skirt.<br />
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[[Category:Software]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=Opera&diff=4238Opera2013-03-04T03:21:07Z<p>Bella: </p>
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<div>{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = Opera.png<br />
|imgsize= 200x200px<br />
<br />
|cname = Opera<br />
|alias = Øpera<br />
|hname = <br />
|debut = <br />
|height = <br />
|haircolor= Light brown<br />
|eyecolor= Dark blue<br />
|weapon = <br />
|apfaction = <br />
|lineage= <br />
|rival= <br />
<br />
|osper = Opera web browser<br />
|osdev = Opera Software ASA<br />
|reldate = <br />
|lastrel = <br />
}}<br />
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==Technical Details==<br />
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==Character Details==<br />
Øpera-tan is a personification of the Opera web browser. This character was created in response to Lawrence Eng's recommendation on Opera branding. As per Lawrence's suggestion, she is an elegant but approachable lady wearing opera gloves. Other characteristics include long silvery gray hair, and a purple hat with a big red letter Ø.<br />
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See also:<br />
*[[List of OS-tans]] <br />
<br />
[[Category:Software]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=Thunderbird&diff=4237Thunderbird2013-03-04T03:15:41Z<p>Bella: </p>
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<div>{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = Tbird.png<br />
|imgsize= 200x200px<br />
<br />
|cname = Thunderbird<br />
|alias = N/A<br />
|hname = <br />
|debut = 2006<br />
|height = <br />
|haircolor= Silver<br />
|eyecolor= Gold<br />
|weapon = N/A<br />
|apfaction = Mozilla family<br />
|lineage= Mozilla<br />
|rival= <br />
<br />
|osper = Thunderbird mail Client<br />
|osdev = Mozilla Foundation<br />
|reldate = 2003<br />
|lastrel = 2013<br />
}}<br />
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==Technical details==<br />
Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open source mail and news client. <br />
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==Character Details==<br />
Thunderbird-tan is depicted as a fair-skinned woman with short silver hair, bangs and two long locks and golden eyes. She dresses in a black leotard with a futuristic-looking yellow and blue sleeveless split-front dress, baggy, thigh-high stockings, detached sleeves, a white neck-corset, yellow hat and blue headset. Her overall impression is that of a telephone operator and is often shown carrying a keyboard, monitor or letters. <br />
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She is depicted as being best friends with Firefox-ko. <br />
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See also:<br />
*[[List of OS-tans]]<br />
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[[Category:Software]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=GENIAC&diff=4236GENIAC2013-03-04T03:05:03Z<p>Bella: </p>
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<div>{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = GENIAC.jpg<br />
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|cname = GENIAC-tan<br />
|alias = GENIAC-chan, Genius Almost-Automatic Computer<br />
|hname = Jeanie Berkeley<br />
|debut = Jul 2008<br />
|height = 100 cm (3'3")<br />
|haircolor= Light brown<br />
|eyecolor= Brown<br />
|apfaction = [[Binteeji Renmei]]<br />
|lineage= Independent<br />
<br />
|osper = GENIAC series<br />
|osdev = Berkeley Enterprises<br />
|reldate = 1955<br />
|lastrel = 1959<br />
}}<br />
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==Technical Details==<br />
[[wikipedia:Geniac | The GENIAC]] is a toy computer sold from 1955 until the 1960's, and operated entirely through rotary switches. Three other variations were made: The Tyniac (Tiny Almost-Automatic Computer), Weeniac (Weeny Almost-Automatic Computer) and Brainiac (Brain-Imitating Almost-Automatic Computer).By some, it is considered to be one of the earliest personal computers.<br />
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==Character Details==<br />
====General====<br />
She is represented as a little girl, with an apparent age of 5 or 6 years old and has shoulder-length light brown hair, orange eyes and wears glasses, a cream-colored dress, a bonnet with perforated holes (akin to the brown discs on the GENIAC), and sometimes also wears a matching jacket. She is extremely intelligent but frail, puppet-like and cannot function on her own without a caretaker holding the strings and handle on her back. She likes to play simple games, with Tic-Tac-Toe being her favorite.<br />
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==History and background==<br />
In her first year, GENIAC was brought to the military base [[SAGE]] was staying in. That was the first time SAGE ever saw a hobbyist/consumer computer-tan, and to this day is one of the few she doesn't look down upon at all. GENIAC quickly befriended SAGE, who was won over by her friendliness and quirkiness. The two had spent a lot of time playing together, and SAGE also served as her caregiver, but they were separated in 1957 when SAGE's training had begun.<br />
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GENIAC was upset about SAGE having to leave, but had friends to look after her until the early 60's. She was abandoned then for unknown reasons, her last friend may have been a child who outgrew the need for her as a friend, or moved away and couldn't take her with. For over 40 years she lied comatose in an attic until discovered by some other Vintage-tans and she was revived again. Happy at first but soon saddened and frightened after realizing that more than 40 years have passed and the world and friends she once knew are long gone. She also developed a terrible fear of going back to sleep, as she dreaded the thought of waking up another several decades later. <br />
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She now lives in the [[Binteeji Renmei]], and is getting to know them better. She became best friends with [[EXEC]], who volunteered to be her caretaker and also because EXEC-sama grew up in the same time period as her and because of that, they can talk to each other using words, imagery and memories that both can relate to. GENIAC-tan also likes to chat with [[Commodore 64|C64-tan]], (a fellow genius) but being unfamiliar with modern technology, GENIAC ends up asking more obstructive questions than giving out constructive answers!<br />
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After her revival, she also befriended [[Apple III|Apple III-tan]], who from their meeting considered joining the BR. In 2010, SAGE visited and was able to reunite with her childhood friend at last.<br />
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====Other notes====<br />
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====External Links====<br />
*[http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/Geniac-Home-Computer-1955.htm A picture of the GENIAC computer]<br />
*[http://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml Personal Computer Milestones] <br />
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[[Category:Historical]][[Category:Binteeji Renmei]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=Windows_NT&diff=4235Windows NT2013-03-04T03:03:20Z<p>Bella: </p>
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{{OSinfobox<br />
|tanname= Windows NT-tan<br />
|image= WinNTtan.jpg<br />
<br />
|cname= Windows NT-san<br />
|alias= Windows New Technology, OS/2 3.0<br />
|hname = <br />
|debut= Unknown<br />
|height= None officially listed<br />
|haircolor= Lilac (most common)<br />
|eyecolor= Blue <br />
|weapon = Sometimes depicted with sword<br />
|apfaction= [[Windows Family]]<br />
|lineage= [[WinNT]]<br />
|rival= The Unices, VMS<br />
<br />
|osper= Windows NT 3.x<br />
|osdev= Microsoft<br />
|reldate= 27 Jul 1993<br />
|lastrel= Version 3.51 SP5 (19 Sep 1996)<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Technical Details==<br />
Windows NT began development in 1989, with the intention on being the next evolution of IBM and Microsoft's OS/2; the team behind it lead by the creator of VMS. However, after the overnight success of Windows 3.0, Microsoft cut their ties with IBM and decided to shift focus toward making what was then known as "OS/2 3.0" into a business-oriented Windows version (Renamed "Windows NT"), while IBM continued to develop and support OS/2 on their own. While it took a while for it to catch on, NT eventually came to surpass OS/2; becoming very popular in business use for it's stability.<br />
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Although the name of Windows NT was retired after NT 4.0 was discontinued, it still lives on as the kernel powering every desktop version from Windows 2000 onward, with the exception of Windows ME.<br />
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==Character Details==<br />
===General===<br />
There are two mainstream personifications of '''Windows NT'''. The first NT-tan is depicted as a young woman (though her age range varies from child to adult depending on the artist) with purple hair (ranging from lilac to very dark) and blue or purple eyes. Most commonly her outfit is a simple pink dress, sometimes with a long-sleeved shirt under it, and an apron over it.<br />
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She mainly represents NT 3.x, and is the mother of 2K-tan, Inu-T and the other NT releases. When an NT-tan is being referred to, it's usually this design; the other accepted NT design is now almost always known as "Inu-T". <br />
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Although usually seen as loving, sweet and motherly, a few artists' depictions show NT-tan as a bold, and sometimes crazed warrior, shown with a bladed weapon. One such depiction shows her alongside a similarly-armed Windows 95-tan, they are thought to have trained together. Her weapon is a western-style sword, usually either a rapier or a broadsword; this contrasts with 95-tan, who wields an eastern blade. <br />
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===Family and relationships===<br />
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====VMS====<br />
[[VMS|VMS-tan]] is NT-tan's biological mother, whom NT-tan is a modified clone of, but is unaware of their relationship; it was never told to her when she was first introduced to the Windows Family. NT-tan fought against her for control over the server market as her first mission, and won.<br />
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====OS/2====<br />
[[OS/2|OS/2-tan]] is NT's half-sister, although OS/2 and VMS aren't related, NT-tan was partly created from OS/2-tan's genes. Since OS/2-tan violently hates the Windows-tans, it's assumed that they have fought on several occasions before and during the OS Wars. <br />
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====Windows Family====<br />
She is one of the matriarchs of the Windows Family, the other being 95-tan, who has no children, but fills a similar motherly role. As the main matriarch, she is the primary ambassador to the family during meetings with other factions. She is also portrayed as ME-tan's adoptive mother, raising her together with a young 2K-tan and XP twins, as they are close to the same age. <br />
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3.1-tan and 95-tan are commonly seen together with her, bonded by their roles in the family, and also their early life experiences.<br />
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In OSC fanon, she and 95-tan hardly ever met 1.0-tan and 2.0-tan, and didn't notice when they were exiled.<br />
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====The Mac-tans====<br />
NT-tan gets along well with OSX Rhapsody-tan, the ambassador of the Mac House. Their friendship is an important key in keeping the family meetings diplomatic.<br />
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==Other designs==<br />
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==="Inu-T"===<br />
See [[InuT-tan]].<br />
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The second accepted one is known as "Inu-T", a young, blue haired dog-girl who wears a blue dress, and socks and gloves shaped like paws. Whether she was originally meant as an alternative design to the previously mentioned NT-tan is unknown, but now Inu-T is commonly recognized as representing Windows NT 4.0 Workstation (a later NT-based operating system preceding Windows 2000). <br />
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===Deja Vu's design===<br />
Yet another NT-tan, Windows NT SP6, was designed by the dōjinshi group [[Dispute between Futaba Society and Déjà vu|Deja vu]], but it was considered a bootleg design by Futaba society and not an official OS-Tan. Her design has not been used since then.<br />
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==History and background (OSC fanon)==<br />
{{WIP}}<br />
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===Creation and early life===<br />
Windows NT-tan's creation came about as a result of VMS developers from DEC hired to work with Microsoft to develop a next-generation OS, with VMS' power and OS/2's portability. She was born in 1989 when development on Windows NT started, cloned from VMS-tan's code, a sample brought over to the Microsoft labs without VMS-tan's knowledge or permission. She is not a complete clone of VMS-tan though, her code was also partly spliced together with OS/2-tan's. <br />
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She was born into the [[Microsoft-IBM Family]], but had only met MS-DOS-tan and the Windows-tans since she wasn't introduced to them until after the family's break-up. Early in life, she was trained to be a fighter, inheriting the training that was originally promised to OS/2-tan before her, and outside of her training, she spent the most time with Windows 3.1-tan until 95-tan was born. <br />
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When 95-tan was born, she and NT-tan trained and sparred together. They hardly ever met Windows 1.0-tan and 2.0-tan, who were deliberately kept away from them by the family's higher-ups.<br />
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===Achieving dominance in the server market===<br />
Her 1993 debut was successful. While she wasn't yet at her strongest, and not strong enough to defeat any of the Unix-tans in combat, she was able to exploit the weaknesses of their war-torn faction. Their territory was overran by her forces, and from defeating the Unix-tans, she secured a large part of the server market. <br />
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She further took over the market when she also conquered the DEC faction and defeated VMS-tan in a duel; she didn't know that VMS-tan was her mother, nor ever met her, so she didn't hold back in battle. The DEC Faction declined over the next few years, losing territory to her forces before collapse. <br />
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===Duel against OS/2-tan===<br />
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===After the wars===<br />
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==See also:==<br />
*[[List of OS-tans]]<br />
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT Wikipedia article on Windows NT]<br />
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[[Category:Windows]]<br />
[[Category:Controversy]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=95_OSR_2.5&diff=423495 OSR 2.52013-03-04T03:00:19Z<p>Bella: </p>
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<div>{{OSinfobox<br />
|tanname= Windows 95 OSR 2.5-tan<br />
|image= Win95osr2-5.jpg<br />
<br />
|cname= Windows 95 OSR 2.5-tan<br />
|alias= OSR 2.5-sama, 95C<br />
|debut= Unknown<br />
|height= 153 cm (5'0")<br />
|haircolor= brown<br />
|eyecolor= red<br />
|apfaction= [[Wanderer Class]]<br />
|lineage= [[Win9x| DOS/Win9x]]<br />
<br />
|osper= Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2.5 (95C)<br />
|osdev= Microsoft<br />
|reldate= 26 Nov 1997<br />
|lastrel= OEM Service Release 2.5 v 4.03.1214 (1997)<br />
}}<br />
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===Character Details===<br />
95 OSR 2.5-tan, also known as 2.5-tan, is an original character created for a Japanese 4koma that resembles the original [[95-tan | Windows 95-tan]] but with shorter hair and wearing more Westernized clothing. She personifies OSR 2.5, the last patched version of Windows 95. She also has a more extroverted personality than 95-tan. She appeared out of the shadow of the OSes to challenge the 98 series and seems to regard [[Windows 98|98-tan]] especially as a rival, but no matter what she does to 98, the other OS regards her as a well-meaning friend. She is sometimes seen wearing a black skirt, black gloves, and a white sleeveless shirt like 98, but with a red tie and black 95 style bow.<br />
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===OSC Notes===<br />
Though OSR 2.5-tan was likely meant as a one-shot character in the aforementioned 4koma panels, she has achieved a mild level of popularity in the OS-tan Collections forum. Not only has she been depicted or included in various drawings by different OSC artists, but she has also been assigned a weapon in line with the warrior lineage of [[95-tan]]. The weapon is a Jutte, or a sword-breaking device previously used by law enforcement officers in Japan's Edo Period. This was done to reference (and historically parallel) Microsoft Windows' own transition from a warring period (mid-90's, when it's future was not yet secured) to its era of dominance and prosperity in the desktop market beginning with Windows 98. <br />
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A [[95 OSR 2.1-tan | Windows 95 OSR 2.1-tan]], only briefly mentioned in passing in the aforementioned 4Koma panels, has also been created by OSC artist Aurora as part of the effort to grow OSR 2.5-tan beyond the level of a one-shot character.<br />
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See also:<br />
*[[List of OS-tans]][[Category:Windows]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=DOS/V&diff=4233DOS/V2013-03-04T02:59:06Z<p>Bella: </p>
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<div>{{Expand}}<br />
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{{OSinfobox<br />
|tanname= DOS/V-tan<br />
|image= DOSV.gif<br />
<br />
|cname= DOS/V-tan<br />
|alias= DOS/VGA<br />
|hname = <br />
|debut= Unknown<br />
|height = <br />
|height= none officially listed, is 128 cm (4'2") in Annex Project<br />
|haircolor= grey<br />
|eyecolor= grey or pale green<br />
|weapon = <br />
|apfaction = [[DOSSE]]<br />
|lineage= x86 DOS<br />
|rival= <br />
<br />
|osper= DOS/V<br />
|osdev= IBM<br />
|reldate= 1990<br />
|lastrel= unknown<br />
<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Technical details==<br />
DOS/V is a variant of PC-DOS designed with Japanese language support, and led to the IBM compatibles becoming dominant in the Japanese market, overthrowing the previously dominant PC-98 platform. <br />
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==Character details==<br />
She is a younger sister of [[MS-DOS]]-tan and [[PC-DOS]]-tan, and is the same size as them, but has long grey or grey-blue hair and a dark bodysuit; around the collar is the DOS insignia in different colors. She is less shy than MS-DOS-tan and less standoffish than PC-DOS-tan, but still isn't very sociable. <br />
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==History and background==<br />
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<br />
See also:<br />
*[[List of OS-tans]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:DOS]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=Windows_2.0&diff=4232Windows 2.02013-03-04T02:56:36Z<p>Bella: </p>
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<div>{{OSinfobox<br />
|tanname= Windows 2.0-tan<br />
|image= windows2-0avi.png<br />
<br />
|cname= Windows 2.0-tan<br />
|alias= 2.0-chan<br />
|debut= Sep 2006<br />
|height= 127 cm (4'2")<br />
|haircolor= black<br />
|eyecolor= blue<br />
|apfaction= [[Binteeji Renmei]]<br />
|lineage= [[Win9x|DOS/Win9x]]<br />
<br />
|osper= Windows 2.0<br />
|osdev= Microsoft<br />
|reldate= 1 Nov 1987<br />
|lastrel= v2.03 (Nov 1987)<br />
<br />
|fnote=<br />
}}<br />
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==Technical Details==<br />
'''Windows 2.0-tan''' (2.0たん) is one of the least common Windows personifications. She personifies Windows 2.0, which was a version of the Microsoft Windows graphical user interface-based operating environment that superseded [[Windows 1.0]]. It was Microsoft's second attempt to implement a multi-tasking graphical user interface-based operating environment on the PC platform. <br />
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==Character Details==<br />
Despite the popularity of Windows-based OS-tans, there are considerably few renditions of Windows OSes prior to version 3.1. One possible reason for this omission can be traced to the perception of [[Windows 3.1]] as marking the beginning of Microsoft Windows' rise to dominance (hence, the origin of the Windows family), and thus delegating versions 1.0 and 2.0 as simply younger facets of the more memorable version 3.1. Therefore, only a handful of designs that can be confirmed by OSC to exist, all of which share similar-enough traits to be considered as a single character rendition. <br />
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Windows 2.0-tan, the daughter of Windows 1.0-tan, is depicted as a young girl of about 7 or 8 years old but uncharacteristically-skilled in masonry (a reference to her setting the foundation for Microsoft's future success). She has bright blue eyes, short black hair, and wears a large white hairband tied in the front with ends in the shape of a 2.0. She wears a simple blue grade-school uniform with long lavender socks and black strapped shoes, and given her masonry profession she can also be seen wearing orange rawhide gloves.<br />
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Unlike Windows 1.0-tan, 2.0-tan has a level of maturity that belies her physical age, and is fully aware of her surroundings as well as the actions and intents of others. Nearly all but Windows 3.1-tan are unaware of her existence, yet Windows 2.0-tan has the most reliable and complete knowledge of the true Windows family tree -- surpassing even the recollections of [[MSDOS| MSDOS-tan]], [[PCDOS| PCDOS-tan]] and [[OS2| OS/2-tan]] given her former favorable position with Father. Her exile, along with her mother 1.0-tan, were in part due to her unwillingness (and technical inability) to adapt to the aggressive tactics commonplace during the commercial OS Wars. This banishment, preceded by the original dissolution of her IBM/Microsoft family and followed by years of hardship as a Wanderer, have done little to affect her shy and demure disposition, but have done irreparable damage to her trusting spirit and optimistic outlook on life. By all accounts, the present-day Windows 2.0-tan can be accurately described as psychologically-scarred.<br />
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She and her mother 1.0-tan currently reside with other Vintage OS-tans, far away from their legitimate family. She works hard to become a valuable and loyal member of this newfound family, albeit often at the cost of her health. <br />
<br />
See also:<br />
*[[List of OS-tans]]<br />
*[[Windows 1.0]]<br />
<br />
[[Category:Windows]] [[Category:Vintage]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=Ad-Aware&diff=4231Ad-Aware2013-03-04T02:54:34Z<p>Bella: </p>
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<div>{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = Ad-aware-tan.jpg<br />
|imgsize= 200x200px<br />
<br />
|cname = Ad-Aware<br />
|alias = <br />
|hname = <br />
|debut = 2009<br />
|height = <br />
|haircolor= Blue<br />
|eyecolor= Blue<br />
|weapon = Armor (?)<br />
|apfaction = N/A<br />
|lineage= N/A<br />
|rival= <br />
<br />
|osper = Ad-Aware<br />
|osdev = Lavasoft<br />
|reldate = 1999<br />
|lastrel = 2012<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Technical details==<br />
Ad-aware is a program that originally scanned Internet Explorer for Web beacons. Over time, this program grew into a full-blown security suite, including Anti-virus, Anti-spyware, Anti-adware, and Rookit-scanning. <br />
<br />
==Character Details==<br />
Ad-aware-tan is drawn with leg and body armour, with clamps as shoes, tools, behind her shoulders, and long blue pigtails.<br />
<br />
[[Category:Software]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=Nvu&diff=4230Nvu2013-03-04T02:50:07Z<p>Bella: </p>
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<div>{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = Nvu-tan.gif<br />
|imgsize= 200x200px<br />
<br />
|cname = Nvu<br />
|alias = N/A<br />
|hname = <br />
|debut = 2006<br />
|height = <br />
|haircolor= Grey<br />
|eyecolor= Purple<br />
|weapon = N/A<br />
|apfaction = Mozilla family<br />
|lineage= Mozilla <br />
|rival= <br />
<br />
|osper = Nvu<br />
|osdev = Mozilla Corporation<br />
|reldate = 2004<br />
|lastrel = 2005<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Technical details==<br />
Nvu (pronounced N-view) is a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG WYSIWYG] HTML editor, based on the Composer component of Mozilla Application Suite and Gecko 1.7. It has been discontinued since 2005. <br />
==Character details==<br />
<br />
<br />
Nvu onee-san is depicted as a voluptuous, fair-skinned woman with long gray hair and purple eyes. She dresses in a lavender women's suit with pencil skirt and blazer, which is opened to reveal a black bra underneath. Accessories include rectangular glasses, X-shaped cufflinks, a check mark hairclip and anchor necklace, as well as a pad of paper. <br />
<br />
Unlike most OS-tans, Nvu has onee-san tacked on to the end of her name meaning big sister. This perhaps reflects her role in the Mozilla family.<br />
<br />
See also:<br />
*[[List of OS-tans]]<br />
[[Category:Software]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=NepaLinux&diff=4229NepaLinux2013-03-02T20:37:12Z<p>Bella: </p>
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<div>{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = nepalinuxavi.png<br />
|imgsize= 200x200px<br />
<br />
|cname = NepaLinux<br />
|alias = N/A<br />
|hname = <br />
|debut = 2007<br />
|height = <br />
|haircolor= Black<br />
|eyecolor= Black<br />
|weapon = Spear<br />
|apfaction = Unknown; possibly [[Linux Unix Consortium]] or [[Wanderer Class]]<br />
|lineage= Linux, Debian branch<br />
|rival= N/A<br />
<br />
|osper = NepaLinux<br />
|osdev = Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, PAN Localization Project<br />
|reldate = 2005<br />
|lastrel = 2008<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Technical Details==<br />
Nepalinux is a Nepali-language Debian-based Linux distro. <br />
<br />
==Character Details==<br />
====General====<br />
NepaLinux-tan is depicted as a compactly-built Nepali girl with short, straight black hair, dark eyes and sienna skintone. She is a plain dresser, usually depicted in a black shirt, cranberry cardigan and blue skirt. As with many of her Linux kin, she carries a spear - in her case, a golden one with the flag of Nepal hanging near the head. She also dons a blue helmet with a golden visor and Gnu horns, similar to the helmet that [[Linux]]-tan wore in her youth. <br />
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Owing her isolated geographic location, it is likely that she doesn't get to interact with her family very often. However, she has been drawn congregating with her fellow Open Source and alternative OS-tans. <br />
<br />
==Fanworks==<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-6435 Road to Redmond]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-4552 Kami-Tux's original design]<br />
[[Category:Linux]] [[Category:OpenSource]] [[Category:Stub]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=NepaLinux&diff=4228NepaLinux2013-03-02T20:36:53Z<p>Bella: </p>
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<div>{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = nepalinuxavi.png<br />
|imgsize= 200x200px<br />
<br />
|cname = NepaLinux<br />
|alias = N/A<br />
|hname = <br />
|debut = 2007<br />
|height = <br />
|haircolor= Black<br />
|eyecolor= Black<br />
|weapon = Spear<br />
|apfaction = Unknown; possibly [[Linux Unix Consortium]] or [[Wanderer Class]]<br />
|lineage= Linux, Debian branch<br />
|rival= N/A<br />
<br />
|osper = NepaLinux<br />
|osdev = Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya, PAN Localization Project<br />
|reldate = 2005<br />
|lastrel = 2008<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Technical Details==<br />
Nepalinux is a Nepali-language Debian-based Linux distro. <br />
<br />
==Character Details==<br />
====General====<br />
NepaLinux-tan is depicted as a compactly-built Nepali girl with short, straight black hair, dark eyes and sienna skintone. She is a plain dresser, usually depicted in a black shirt, cranberry cardigan and blue skirt. As with many of her Linux kin, she carries a spear - in her case, a golden one with the flag of Nepal hanging near the head. She also dons a blue helmet with a golden visor and Gnu horns, similar to the helmet that [[Linux]]-tan wore in her youth. <br />
<br />
Owing her isolated geographic location, it is likely that she doesn't get to interact with her family very often. However, she has been drawn congregating with her fellow Open Source and alternative OS-tans. <br />
<br />
==Fanworks==<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-6435 Road to Redmond]<br />
*[http://ostan-collections.net/imeeji/displayimage.php?pos=-4552]<br />
[[Category:Linux]] [[Category:OpenSource]] [[Category:Stub]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=VMS&diff=4227VMS2013-02-28T23:46:11Z<p>Bella: </p>
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<div>{{WIP}}<br />
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{{OSinfobox<br />
|image = OpenVMSavi.png<br />
<br />
|cname = VMS-tan<br />
|alias = OpenVMS, Virtual Memory System<br />
|hname = Vanessa Cutler<br />
|debut = 2007<br />
|height = 5'8" (173 cm)<br />
|haircolor= Navy w/ silver streaks<br />
|eyecolor= Lilac<br />
|weapon= Broadsword/cleaver hybrid, knives, sabre <br />
|apfaction = Formerly of the [[DEC Military]], currently [[CIOST]]<br />
|lineage= DEC, PDP-11/VAX line<br />
|rival= Computer criminals<br />
<br />
|osper = VMS (OpenVMS)<br />
|osdev = Digital Equipment Corporation (1977-1998), HP<br />
|reldate = Oct 1977<br />
|lastrel = OpenVMS 8.4 (21 Jun 2010)<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Technical details==<br />
[[wikipedia:OpenVMS|OpenVMS]] – popularly shortened to VMS – is a server, mainframe and (super)minicomputer OS that runs on the VAX, Alpha and Itanium architectures. Originally released by DEC in 1977, VMS is notable for having among the best security, stability, clustering/networking and fault-tolerance features of any modern operating system. It maintains a small but dedicated userbase in the high-end server, commercial, scientific and hobbyist markets. <br />
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==Character details==<br />
OpenVMS-tan is depicted as a somewhat tall, athletically-built woman, perhaps late 20s or early 30s in apparent age. She has light skin, numerous fencing scars, has lilac-colored eyes and long navy blue hair, usually tied in a high ponytail, and two long silver forelocks (bangs). She tends to be on the expressionless side - shows of strong emotion are rare, and because of this the smallest of smiles, shows of sadness or anger are usually treated as a serious event by her companions. In public, she typically wears a light gray half-mask to keep her identity hidden and her usual attire is dark in color and utilitarian in nature. She is often depicted wearing a high-collared, black button-up shirt, waistcoat, cargo-type pants, knee-high, strapped leather boots, fingerless gloves and a trenchcoat, as well as a leather belt and leg-holsters for her throwing knives. She carries a few knives at all time and also wields a large, silvery-colored broadsword - cleaver hybrid, its blade covered in a row of razor-sharp "shark's teeth". Her current style of grooming and dress is a far departure from the fashion of her youth; during her time in the [[DEC Military | DEC Faction]] (the late 1970s to late 1990s) she dressed in a slightly modified DEC Military uniform and kept her hair shorter. <br />
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VMS-tan is clear-minded and quick-witted, although she received little of the education afforded to the Unix-tans with whom she competes (although this wasn't exactly atypical among the native DEC OS-tans). In spite of this, she gets by quite well with her inborn intellect and is considered one of the finest self-defense and survival experts in the OS-tan community. Although she has good common sense, she is also prone to her own special brand of survivalist-related extravagance and it is thus debatable whether or not she is a pragmatist in the truest sense of the term. <br />
<br />
Her demeanor is outwardly emotionless and personality likewise stoic, composed and attentive. Because of this, she is often mistaken as sociopathic or psychopathic, however her mind is perfectly sound and she is not lacking in conscience. Although she has a "hard shell", VMS-tan does indeed posses a warmer side known mostly to her friends and family. She has a fine - albeit rather caustic - sense of humor and a good capacity for recreation and fun. She is a lifelong lover of the outdoors, particularly the ocean, and had been involved in sailing since her youth; she started off sailing for sport, but has more recently taken to boating as a means of transportation and has sailed all over the world. As well, she is also involved in scuba-diving and especially enjoys swimming with sharks, her favorite animal. <br />
<br />
VMS-tan has a strong sense of justice and feels a duty to keep others safe. Because of this, she hunts down malware and other security threats whenever possible (or practical), a pastime that has secured her a rather unfortunate status as "vigilante". Although she is a capable and brave fighter, she is not without her fears - although the majority of hers center on trivial subjects rather than anything truly terrifying. <br />
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====Powers====<br />
Like many other high-end server and mainframe OS-tans, VMS-tan has been depicted as having supernatural powers - in her case, practicing a brand of geomancy that gives her power over water. However, she eschews magic for the most part, instead favoring the tangible and tactile nature of physical weaponry. As with many of her DEC-tan peers, she is a classically-trained fencer and used a variety of swords during her youth, becoming especially skilled with the rapier and sabre. <br />
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====Family and Relationships====<br />
VMS-tan had a somewhat starchy relationship with her DEC peers. At the faction, she was closest with her mother [[RSX]], step-sister VAX, as well as [[RSTS]]-tan and the eternally-affectionate [[PDP-1]]. She has a younger sister, [[VAXELN]], but they rarely see each other due to differences of social circles and geography.<br />
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Her relationship with the Unices is mixed. While generally antagonistic toward the family, she and [[UNIX]]-tan started a rather decorous, but also vitriol-soaked friendship in the late 1970s. While she and [[Ultrix]]-tan started off as enemies, they later found common ground as "outcasts" within the faction and warmed to each other.<br />
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As leader of the CIOST, VMS-tan commands a rather large but disorganized and somewhat disparate following of OS-tans. She gets along best with [[VME]], [[Primos]] and [[Stratus_VOS | VOS]]-tan, although they are more akin to "comrades-in-arms" than friends in the traditional sense of the word. Although they were rivals for many years, [[TOPS-20]]-tan is a part of her faction, and she and VMS-tan have reconciled for the most part. <br />
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VMS-tan has few close friends but those she does have tend to be loyal and affectionate in their own unique ways. She and VAX-tan are still close, despite drifting apart geographically in recent years. [[eCOS]]-tan is her companion and self-proclaimed body-guard. She has two "adopted" children - [[FreeVMS]] and OZONE-tan - although she is rather clueless about raising kids and leaves the majority of the work to RED-kun - her personal text editor and long-time friend. It is implied that RED-kun at one point had romantic feelings for VMS-tan, although she didn't reciprocate his affection due to a differences of personality and a chronic lack of interest in romance or dating. His feelings seem to have dissipated in recent years and they now maintain a close platonic relationship. <br />
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==History and background==<br />
===Early life and rise to power===<br />
OpenVMS-tan debuted 1977, under the name VMS. Born to RSX-11 during the golden era of the DEC society, she was a reserved and responsible with a dry sense of humour – and a habit of snarking. Trained extensively in swordfighting (by her mother) and the art of geomancy (by [[Multics | Multics]]), she was inducted into the DEC military that year as a colonel. By 1988, she was a major general. <br />
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Her meteoric rise through the ranks ruffled the feathers of several of her coworkers and endangered the livelihoods of a few others, notably [[TOPS-20 | Tenex]]; outside of DEC, her popularity led to [[ITS | ITS]]'s eventual deposal from MIT. While she viewed these “betrayals” as strictly a matter of business and something not in her own control, her rivals weren't as understanding; although recently she has made good with her old coworkers.<br />
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During the early 1980s VMS and unix became locked in fierce rivalry, one that continues to this day through [[BSD | BSD]] and her children. Unlike many rivals, VMS and Unix don't hate each other; their relationship is marked by good-natured, if not somewhat antagonistic, jousting.<br />
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===Witnessing DEC's decline===<br />
Her name was changed to OpenVMS is 1992, but she continued to use her old moniker out of convenience. The first major trauma in her life occurred in 1993 when [[NT-tan | Windows NT]] was born and VMS subsequently discovered that she was, in part, a genetic copy of herself. The cloning was purported by VMS' creator who, after leaving DEC, was hired by the rising Microsoft empire to create their next generation of OS-tan – one capable of seizing the then-elusive server and minicomputer market. Taking advantage of the disarray of the Unix and OS Wars, NT was able to conquer already divided nations and secure the Windows empire in the professional market. <br />
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One of NT's targets was the already-weakened DEC empire; she faced off against VMS in a duel, completely unaware that her opponent was her mother. VMS, holding back for fear of injuring her daughter, was defeated; this experience made her rethink her life and pushed her toward her current-day mentality. <br />
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===Post-DEC years===<br />
In 1998 the tattered DEC society was conquered by HP, and its -tans scattered to all corners of the earth. VMS, too powerful to be let go of, was kept on; she was one of only two ex-DEC officers not deposed of. Their stepsister is [[HP-UX]], whom VMS doesn't get along with.<br />
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Feeling no allegiance to her new company, VMS set to wandering the world, gathering disparate OS-tans of all cultures and races together to fight the mainstream powers. This was the beginning of the [[CIOST | Confederation of independent OS-tans]], an underground group of technologically-advanced, but largely unknown OS-tans.<br />
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VMS's mother is RSX, has one sister, VAXELN, and two adopted children – OZONE and FreeVMS. She occasionally meets with her old DEC comrades, but lives on her own for the most part. <br />
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==Theories and notes==<br />
====General====<br />
VMS-tan's asexuality (and likely, aromanticism) has been more or less confirmed, in various comics, proposed storylines as well as two character interviews. While most of VMS' coworkers and friends know of - and accept - her orientation, her text editor assistant [[RED]]-kun tried for many years to win her affection, to no avail. <br />
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It has been speculated that VMS-tan was the most psychologically-affected of all the DEC-tans by the breakup of her company. In fear of becoming without a house or homeland once again, she took up residence on her boat - knowing that nobody would ever be able to put her out of her home again if she made a life on the sea. <br />
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====Fanfiction====<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Far-From-Home-pt-I-170720342 Far From Home, pt. I]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Far-From-Home-pt-II-182492007 Far From Home, pt. II]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Far-From-Home-pt-III-182492734 Far From Home, pt. III]<br />
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====Fanart====<br />
*[http://c-quel.deviantart.com/art/OpenVMS-tan-Portraiture-109960791 C-chan's OpenVMS Portrait]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Street-Spirit-254947851 "Street Spirit", VMS-tan Portrait]<br />
*[http://nejinoniwa.deviantart.com/art/Birthday-gift-for-BellaCielo-194377280 NejinOniwa's VMS-tan Birthday Drawing]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/VMS-and-eCOS-tan-104126108 VMS and eCOS-tan]<br />
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[[Category:DEC]]</div>Bellahttps://www.ostan-collections.net/wiki/index.php?title=LINC&diff=4226LINC2013-02-28T23:36:20Z<p>Bella: </p>
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{{OSinfobox<br />
|tanname= LINC<br />
|image= linc.png<br />
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|cname= LINC<br />
|alias= Laboratory Instrument Computer<br />
|hname= Dr. Lincoln<br />
|debut= Spring 2011<br />
|height= Mid 5' range<br />
|haircolor= Black<br />
|eyecolor= Grey-blue<br />
|weapon= Paper magic<br />
|apfaction= Formerly [[DEC Military]]<br />
|lineage= [[:Category:MIT | MIT Society]], contributed to [[DEC Military | DEC Faction]]<br />
|rival= Various DEC-tans<br />
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|osper= LINC<br />
|osdev= MIT, Lincoln Labs, later DEC<br />
|reldate= Circa 1962<br />
|lastrel= n/a<br />
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==Technical details==<br />
Originally built by MIT Lincoln Labs, the LINC computer was later produced and sold by DEC from 1964 to 1969. A partial descendant of MIT's [[Whirlwind]], via the TX-2 computer - which was used to develop LINCTape. LINCTape is a very reliable system, but was needed for its system to operate, and is hard to type on. Several DEC systems are descended from LINC: PDP-4, PDP-5, LINC-8, PDP-11 and PDP-12. LINC's design is entirely in the Public Domain. <br />
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==Character details==<br />
===General===<br />
LINC-tan has pale skin, long black hair with straight-cut bangs and gray-blue eyes, and usually wears black dresses with a lab coat and green ribbons in her hair. In her recent years, she also wears a stab vest reflecting the strength and reliability of LINCTape, which can have holes punched in it by a paper tape puncher without any problems. <br />
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Despite being pacifistic and outwardly-polite for the most part, her personality is cynical and somewhat acerbic. She is highly intelligent and educated with good powers of recollection, but needs her planner with to do anything. She is sometimes hard to communicate with and intimidated by groups, as such she prefers to talking to one person at a time. Her experiences with the National Institutes of Heath gave her psychology skills and up until DEC's demise, she worked as a mental-health professional. <br />
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Like many OS-tans of the time, LINC possessed certain magical skills - in her case, strange powers over paper. This ability got her branded as something of a witch by her DEC peers, who were already mistrustful of her due to her outside (MIT) origins. <br />
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===Family and relationships===<br />
LINC-tan is married to [[PDP-8]]-tan and together they have one child, [[PDP-12]]-tan. LINC-tan considers all the PDP-8 OS-tans her step-children, and they seem to be the only DEC-tans who are openly friendly toward LINC. <br />
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Outside of her own familial unit, LINC-tan had few friends or admirers at DEC. <br />
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==History and background==<br />
====Early Life====<br />
LINC-tan began life in 1961. She was created at Lincoln Laboratory and attended classes at MIT; unlike many of her peers, who were directed into physics, computer science, mathematics and other 'hard science' fields, LINC studied social sciences, psychology in particular. While studying at the university, LINC made acquaintance with many MIT computer-tans - she and [[CTSS]]-tan sometimes spent time together, and she occasionally visited [[Whirlwind]]-tan, although Whirlwind was already in delicate health at this point. She looked up to Whirlwind in a way, and considered her something of a conceptual-ancestor - because of this, her health problems caused LINC a certain amount of emotional distress and sadness. It is unknown how, or if, LINC and [[TX-0]]-tan got along; as TX-0 was created with knowledge gained in the experimental surgeries that disabled Whirlwind-tan and considered something of a pariah among the OS-tans who admired Whirlwind. <br />
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LINC started working for the National Institute of Health sometime in the early 1960s. Little is known of her time working for the NIH, but it is known that she furthered her training as a psychologist during this time.<br />
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In 1964, she was recruited into the [[DEC Military | DEC Faction]] and faced a frosty welcome. Several factors have been cited as contributing to the DEC-tans' hostility; among these, her work as a mental-health professional and assigned position as "surgeon-general", her MIT origins and unusual paper-based sorcery. In spite of the mostly negative reaction, some DEC-tans took a liking to her; most notably [[PDP-8]]-tan, who herself is a distant relative of LINC. <br />
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Despite their seemingly clashing personalities - LINC being cynical, cold, intelligent and over-educated, and PDP-8 being bubbly, personable, but rather uneducated and mentally-simplistic - they were fast friends, and their relationship soon took a markedly affectionate, perhaps even ''romantic'' turn. Realizing that they shared a high level of compatibility, the management of DEC arranged for them to be married; LINC and PDP-8-tan were not only accepting of this arrangement, but enthusiastic over it. They wed in 1966, and remain together to this day.<br />
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In 1969, PDP-8 and LINC-tan had a child together, [[PDP-12]]-tan. This is one of only a few recorded instances of an OS-tan being created from two parents. <br />
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====Modern Day====<br />
To date, there are no theories or documentation concerning LINC's activities between the 1970s and current-day. Today, she resides with PDP-8-tan in an undisclosed location in New England. <br />
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==Theories and Notes==<br />
==Fanworks==<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Bday-gift-LINC-PDP-8-Pinups-309816478 LINC and PDP-8 Pinups]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/LINC-8-Colored-v1-258158791 LINC-8 Portrait, Version 1]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/LINC-8-Colored-v2-258159224 LINC-8 Portrait, Version 2]<br />
*[http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/1906/img1792zj.jpg Some PDP-tans-in-bathing-suits references]<br />
*[http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/7721/img110m.jpg PDP doodles, including a small LINC comic]<br />
*[http://bellacielo.deviantart.com/art/Some-PDP-tans-199993202 Early PDP-tans sketch]<br />
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