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{{OSinfobox | {{OSinfobox | ||
|tanname = UNIX-tan | |tanname = UNIX-tan | ||
|image = BellLabsUnix.png | |image = BellLabsUnix.png | ||
|cname = UNIX | |cname = UNIX, Unix | ||
|alias = UNICS | |alias = UNICS | ||
|hname = Eunice Bell | |hname = Eunice Bell | ||
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|lineage = UNIX (matriarch/founder) | |lineage = UNIX (matriarch/founder) | ||
|rival = ''Various'' | |rival = ''Various'' | ||
|osper = Research UNIX | |osper = Research & early commercial UNIX releases | ||
|osdev = AT&T Bell Labs | |osdev = AT&T Bell Labs | ||
|reldate = 1969-07-31 (internal)<br>1971-11-03 (public) | |reldate = 1969-07-31 (internal)<br>1971-11-03 (public) | ||
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==Character details== | ==Character details== | ||
====Physical | ''Note: Unix-tan is meant to represent both [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Unix research Unix] versions, as well as early [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_V commercial Unix releases], across [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version_7_Unix various platforms].'' | ||
====Physical==== | |||
Unix-tan is depicted as a short, pale-skinned woman in her mid-late teens. She has long, near-black purple hair with lighter streaks, and a pair of dark gray horned owl ears. Her eyes are piercing, intimidating and inquisitive, deep blue with electric blue Bell Laboratory logos implanted over her pupils.<ref>Described by | Unix-tan is depicted as a short, pale-skinned woman in her mid-late teens. She has long, near-black purple hair with lighter streaks, and a pair of dark gray horned owl ears.<ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,496.msg33653.html#msg33653 "I wanted to choose something that represented age and wisdom AND had some physical appeal AND hasn't been seen in Anime before. In addition, the horned owl has been used to anthropomorphize Unix on some occasions(...)"]</ref> Her eyes are piercing, intimidating and inquisitive, deep blue with electric blue Bell Laboratory logos implanted over her pupils.<ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,496.msg33653.html#msg33653 Described by C-Chan as "a quaint tribute to a harsher and savage era"]</ref> She wears brow-line glasses and simple monochrome-colored clothing, most typically boots, a blazer, sweater-vest, shirt, tie and pleated skirt with perforated "UNIX" accents, or a long-sleeved knee-length black dress. Since the early 1990s she has used a wheelchair, either a power model or a portable manual one. <ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/gallery/picture.php?/26312/category/849 UNIX-tan pre-concept sketch]</ref><ref>[https://www.deviantart.com/c-quel/art/UNIX-sama-Vector-Sketch-137687439 UNIX-tan concept sketch]</ref> | ||
She carries a polished aluminum staff with a variety of inscribed Roman numerals. While it mostly functions as a ceremonial sceptre, it doubles as a weapon. The numbers on its surface symbolize the various tenets of Unix Philosophy.<ref>"The actual answer is that there's only one tenent, not surprisingly why the Nix Staff looks suspiciously like an unadorned 'one'." | She carries a polished aluminum staff with a variety of inscribed Roman numerals. While it mostly functions as a ceremonial sceptre, it doubles as a weapon. The numbers on its surface symbolize the various tenets of Unix Philosophy.<ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,496.msg33653.html#msg33653 "The actual answer is that there's only one tenent, not surprisingly why the Nix Staff looks suspiciously like an unadorned 'one'."]</ref> | ||
====Personality==== | ====Personality==== | ||
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Though she is powerful enough to get her way by means of sorcery, she prefers using mind-games to enact her will. So skilled is she at manipulation that she can defeat rivals by using their own psychology against them, or turn enemies into allies. Although she possesses a sense of self-preservation bordering on selfishness, she is not without conscience, showing regret for her transgressions as well as compassion toward those in need. | Though she is powerful enough to get her way by means of sorcery, she prefers using mind-games to enact her will. So skilled is she at manipulation that she can defeat rivals by using their own psychology against them, or turn enemies into allies. Although she possesses a sense of self-preservation bordering on selfishness, she is not without conscience, showing regret for her transgressions as well as compassion toward those in need. | ||
Unix-tan's values have fluctuated throughout her lifetime. She started off as an unwitting pioneer of Open Sourcery, but abandoned her early ideas on communality for the sake of material gains, turning into a greedy industrialist for a time. The Unix Wars made her reevaluate her morals | Unix-tan's values have fluctuated throughout her lifetime. She started off as an unwitting pioneer of Open Sourcery, but abandoned her early ideas on communality for the sake of material gains, turning into a greedy industrialist for a time. The Unix Wars made her reevaluate her morals, <ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,466.msg38789.html#msg38789 "I imagine that the reason why UNIX-sama changed after the UNIX wars was because she felt a macabre kind of peace in the knowledge that she finally got what was coming to her"]</ref> becoming an ''Open Sourceress'' in the process.<ref>[https://edu.anarcho-copy.org/UNIX/unix-version-7/x86-port/www.nordier.com/v7x86/ Referencing Unix V7 being released under a Berkeley-type License]</ref> Throughout her life, she has cultivated and maintained a set of values known as ''Unix Philosophy'', which is practiced by her daughters and acolytes, becoming a cornerstone of their society. | ||
She doesn't hide her feelings and speaks whatever is on her mind, no matter how blunt. She has a notoriously hot temper, issuing reproaches with whacks of her staff. While her foes see this behavior as uncouth, her allies appreciate her commitment to honesty at any cost. Unix-tan demands to be treated in kind, finding sycophantic behavior the most intolerable of all. Her gentler side is known by a select group of friends, as well as the vintage-tans she helps to support at the [[Binteeji Renmei]]. | She doesn't hide her feelings and speaks whatever is on her mind, no matter how blunt. She has a notoriously hot temper, issuing reproaches with whacks of her staff. While her foes see this behavior as uncouth, her allies appreciate her commitment to honesty at any cost. Unix-tan demands to be treated in kind, finding sycophantic behavior the most intolerable of all. Her gentler side is known by a select group of friends, as well as the vintage-tans she helps to support at the [[Binteeji Renmei]]. | ||
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====Rise to Power==== | ====Rise to Power==== | ||
In subsequent years, Unix saw her first children created: [[BSD | BSD-tan]], [[CB Unix | In subsequent years, Unix saw her first children created: [[BSD | BSD-tan]], [[CB Unix | CB Unix-tan]] and [[MERT | MERT-tan]] among others. While Unix-tan had initially been communal and cooperatively-minded, she was seduced by the call of capitalism, becoming a successful industrialist in the process. She expanded her political power through a number of successful alliances, in particular with [[PDP-11 | PDP-11-tan]], eroding the foothold of rival small OS-tans and endangering the aging, but powerful earlier generation of Mainframe-tans. | ||
As Unix-tan's influence grew, OS-tans of all stripes rallied against her, but it was too late to stop her conquest. By the end of the decade, all of OS-tan society would be reshaped in her image. | As Unix-tan's influence grew, OS-tans of all stripes rallied against her, but it was too late to stop her conquest. By the end of the decade, all of OS-tan society would be reshaped in her image. | ||
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====Post-War==== | ====Post-War==== | ||
[[Windows NT | NT-tan]] capitalized on the disarray to conquer many Unix territories. The Linux-Unix Consortium (LUC) was created in response. While rivalries remain, the loose coalition has kept tensions from flaring into violence, and allowed the Unixes and Linuxes to present a unified front. | |||
With her family no longer self-destructing, Unix-tan's health has stabilized, though she hasn't regained her pre-war condition. She is less active in on-the-ground organizing, though she is the undisputed figurehead of the family and her children still seek her guidance. | |||
Secure in her position she no longer seeks an heir, instead allowing Linux-tan to be the torch-bearer of her values, spreading Unix influence strata of society previously untouched. | |||
Around the turn of the millennium, Unix-tan tracked Multics-tan down to her last safehouse. The two reconciled shortly before her death.<ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,466.msg38753.html#msg38753 C-chan's description of Unix-tan & Multics-tan's reconciliation]</ref> Their good rapport remains now that Multics-tan has been revived. | |||
The [[House_Of_Mac_Annex_Bios | House of Mac]] embraced Unix customs, becoming one of the most high profile Unix factions. While they operate independent of their LUC kin, and Unix-tan is largely indifferent toward their cause, she extended [[OSX Leopard | Leopard-tan]] official inclusion to her family. What began as a targeted recruitment effort is maintained for diplomatic reasons. | |||
== | ==Notes== | ||
*[ | * Claes (''Gunslinger Girl'' is cited as inspiration for her design.<ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,496.msg33653.html#msg33653 "Any resemblance to Claes from Gunslinger Girl is intentional, as I love that character and thought the two could share some things in common (essentially being chained to the responsibilities demanded of them,... forever,... and just counting the days till they die)."]</ref> | ||
{{Unix-tans}} | {{Unix-tans}} | ||
==References== | |||
[[Category:Unix]][[Category:Historical]][[Category:Minicomputer]] | [[Category:Unix]][[Category:Historical]][[Category:Minicomputer]] | ||
