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It is the proprietary OS-tans that are the most vulnerable to death, since Open Source OS-tans represent systems that can still be freely modified even after being discontinued by their original developer. | It is the proprietary OS-tans that are the most vulnerable to death, since Open Source OS-tans represent systems that can still be freely modified even after being discontinued by their original developer. | ||
==Creation and birth== | |||
==Factors that determine remaining life force, decline, and death== | ==Factors that determine remaining life force, decline, and death== | ||
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Not all abilities are lost though, if an OS-tan has natural abilities independent of code-wielding (i.e: 95-tan's swordsmanship, OS/2-tan's prehensile hair). Those natural abilities won't be lost, but an OS-tan with them may lose the strength to carry them out if she has suffered physical and/or mental decline. | Not all abilities are lost though, if an OS-tan has natural abilities independent of code-wielding (i.e: 95-tan's swordsmanship, OS/2-tan's prehensile hair). Those natural abilities won't be lost, but an OS-tan with them may lose the strength to carry them out if she has suffered physical and/or mental decline. | ||
In most cases, an OS-tan is considered dead if there's not enough of a userbase using just original, unemulated hardware and software to keep the system alive. | In most cases, an OS-tan is considered dead if there's not enough of a userbase using just original, unemulated hardware and software to keep the system alive. | ||
===Exceptions=== | ===Exceptions=== | ||
Some OS-tans are considered living, despite all their real-world systems being shut down and not being able to be run on modern hardware or in software emulators. [[Multics]]-tan would be the most notable example of this - her death was based on the real-life shutdown of the last Multics system, and her rebirth was sparked by Bull opening Multics' source code. Originally, Multics-tan wasn't going to be considered reborn until a bootable Multics system was created in an emulator, but the storyline implications of a reborn Multics-tan were too appealing to ignore. So Multics-tan is considered alive, although there is no good real-life basis for this choice. | |||
On the hardware/software hybrid side, [[SAGE]]-tan is considered living, in spite of the last SAGE system being shut down close to 30 years ago and no full AN/FSQ-7 computers existing intact. SAGE-tan is alive mainly because of storyline purposes; however, there may be an in-universe basis for SAGE's continued life. | |||
==Emulation== | ==Emulation== | ||