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In the original OS-tan canon, there were no deceased OS-tans, and little mention of death. The closest thing to this are a few strips set in the OS Wars depicting 95-tan nearly killing Mac-tan, referencing Apple's near-demise between 1996-98. | In the original OS-tan canon, there were no deceased OS-tans, and little mention of death. The closest thing to this are a few strips set in the OS Wars depicting 95-tan nearly killing Mac-tan, referencing Apple's near-demise between 1996-98. | ||
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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== | |||
Very little is known about how OS-tans (and computer-tans in general( are created and/or born. A few theories have been mentioned, but none have ever been written about in-depth. | |||
====Computer-tans created by humans==== | |||
One commonly-depicted way of OS-tan creation involves being made "from scratch" by human creators. This is how the earliest computer-tans were made, and even in more contemporary times a large number of computer-tans exist without having any sort of ancestral line. | |||
====Computer-tans born to computer-tan parents==== | |||
OS-tans are often depicted as being able to reproduce asexually. Using advanced scientific or magical techniques, [source] code can be extracted from an OS-tan's body and used to create offspring. The extracted code from an OS-tan can be changed or enhanced, giving the offspring specific physical, mental and magical "mutations"; very rarely it is left alone, resulting in an exact duplicate or clone of the OS-tan in question. | |||
While source code is usually obtained legally, sometimes the code is stolen and used to create unauthorized clones or children. This was the case in the creation of [[UNIX]]-tan, who was created from [[Multics]]' code without her knowledge or approval; [[SABRE]]-tan, who was created from [[SAGE]]'s code; and in the Annex universe, [[Windows NT]]-tan, who was made from [[VMS]] and [[OS/2]]-tan's code. | |||
OS-tans do not gestate their young. Indeed, an OS-tan doesn't even need to be present to have a child created, as evidenced by Unix, who managed to "mother" dozens of direct descendants with little personal intervention; and Linux, who has perhaps hundreds of children created from her openly-available source code. It is unknown exactly how OS-tan offspring are grown, but they seem to undergo some sort of accelerated maturation - the youngest OS-tans within the fanon and Annex universe(s) are depicted as being elementary school-age, with no known fanon depictions of baby or toddler OS-tans existing. | |||
It has been speculated that any sufficiently compatible computer-tans of the same species (OS, hardware, program, etc) could produce a child together. However, there are no documented cases of computer-tans reproducing in such a way. The only fanon example of an OS-tan produced from two parents is NT-tan. The yet-unpersonified PDP-12-tan would be another case of a computer-tan derived from two parents - in her case, [[LINC]] and [[PDP-8]]-tan. | |||
====Difficulties of classifying computer-tan lineages==== | |||
There are no set guidelines, even in fanon, regarding what separates direct ancestors (such as mothers and grandmothers) from elder siblings. As such, it is not uncommon to see OS- or computer-tans who personify ancestor/descendant systems portrayed as sisters rather than mother/daughter. In canon, the various Windows-tans provide a good example of this - in spite of the various Windows releases being sequential (for instance, Windows 2000 being the ancestor of XP, which in turn is ancestral to Vista), the Windows-tans are portrayed as sisters rather than a long line of ancestors and descendants. | |||
Sometimes the term "modified clone" is used to denote the child of an OS-tan, particularly when the parent OS-tan has little intervention in the child's life, or is treated as a sibling to the "clone" rather than a parent. PDP-1 and her "modified clones" - PDP-7 and PDP-4 - are a good example of this practice. | |||
==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== | ||
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An important thing to remember when dealing with OS-tan necromancy, is that brushing with death sometimes changes an OS-tan's mind in quite horrifying ways; and while most who do lose their sanity do that as weak individuals on the very brink of their own destruction, a successful revival can often bring back their lives, without taking along their minds. With Colossus-tan, her innate coldbloodedness and killing instincts were amplified greatly, turning her from an efficient spy to a brutally effective assassin; in the case of WITCH, her curiosity, sense for problem-solving and teacherly strictness, turned her into a ruthless, sadistic inquisitor. | An important thing to remember when dealing with OS-tan necromancy, is that brushing with death sometimes changes an OS-tan's mind in quite horrifying ways; and while most who do lose their sanity do that as weak individuals on the very brink of their own destruction, a successful revival can often bring back their lives, without taking along their minds. With Colossus-tan, her innate coldbloodedness and killing instincts were amplified greatly, turning her from an efficient spy to a brutally effective assassin; in the case of WITCH, her curiosity, sense for problem-solving and teacherly strictness, turned her into a ruthless, sadistic inquisitor. | ||
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