Windows 2.0
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| Windows 2.0-tan | |
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| Character Information | |
|---|---|
| Common Names | Windows 2.0-tan |
| Other Names | 2.0-chan |
| Faction | Binteeji Renmei |
| Lineage | DOS/Win9x |
| Appearance | |
| Height | 127 cm (4'2") |
| Hair Color | Black |
| Eye Color | Blue |
| Design | |
| First Appearance | Sep 2006 |
| Technical Information | |
| System Personified | Windows 2.0 |
| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
| Debut | 1 Nov 1987 |
| Latest release | v2.03 (Nov 1987) |
Technical Details
Released 1987, Windows 2.0 was the second release of the Microsoft Windows line. While it offered improvements over its predecessor, it was still quite rudimentary and incomplete.
Character Details
Physical
Windows 2.0-tan is depicted as a young girl with blue eyes, short, hime-cut black hair with two long locks and bangs. She wears a blue and white school uniform with lavender socks and black shoes, and a white headband whose ends have been tied in the shape of "2.0".
She is often depicted with leather gloves, tools, scuffs and dirt, reflecting her role as a stone-mason. [1]
Personality
2.0-tan is sensitive, shy and mature beyond her years. Though she had a trusting personality and cheery outlook earlier in life, she is now mistrustful and perpetually melancholy.
She deals with trauma from the breakup of her family and her subsequent exile, manifesting in bouts of sleepwalking and night terrors. [2]
History and Background
2.0-tan was born into the old MS-IBM family and lived a carefree childhood, getting into mischief and playfully facing off against rival Mac gangs. She was loved and cared for by her mother 1.0-tan and the family maid Xenix-tan.[3] She was especially close with her older stepsister OS/2-tan, who initially pitied 2.0-tan but came to respect her as a peer,[4] going as far as making a pact to stay with each other no matter what.[5]
Her idealism was damaged after Xenix-tan left, the official line that she'd retired suddenly not matching with OS/2-tan's eyewitness account of the event.[6] However, her doubts were assuaged by the birth of Windows 3.1-tan, and her new role as big sister,[7] even as she drifted away from OS/2-tan because of the latter's rigorous training.[8] 2.0-tan didn't realize that 3.1-tan was being trained to replace OS/2-tan, although OS/2-tan had suspicions.
Any remaining illusions were broken when the family was suddenly and acrimoniously split into separate IBM and MS factions. OS/2-tan tried to give 2.0-tan instructions, but was taken away before she could.[9] While 1.0-tan and 2.0-tan remained with the family for several years afterward, they were eventually banished,[10] living as wanderers amidst the chaos of the OS Wars and Unix Wars.[11]
2.0-tan and her mother eventually banded together with Amiga-tan, Apple II-tan and others, forming the Binteeji Renmei as a sanctuary for vintage OS-tans.[12] Here, 2.0-tan found the security and purpose her life had been missing, and friends who understand her.
Notes
- Angelica (Gunslinger Girl) is cited as an inspiration for Windows 2.0-tan.[13]
Fanworks
References
- ↑ Chibi Windows 1.0 and 2.0
- ↑ "OS-tan families": "1.0-san doesn't say a thing, but her expression is enough to let Amiga know what's happening. She gets dressed and runs outside in the moonlit pasture, until she hears 2.0-chan gasping, crying and convulsing near a creek."
- ↑ "OS-tan Families": 'She then meets off with a young OS/2-tan who loves to ruffle her hair, and later with the two DOS sisters. Before they head home, they go off to fish for a very civil, Musical-style face-off . . . with the local Mac Gang, but Xenix-san comes in to interject and takes the little troublemakers back "home" . . . There they have a very pleasant dinner prepared by Xenix with help from 1.0-san . . .'
- ↑ "OS-tan Annex Project": 'When Windows 2.0-tan was born, for example, OS/2-tan took pity on what she thought would be the "last Windows" ever created, and looked after her like an overprotective step sister. Soon both would become genuinely friendly though.']
- ↑ "OS-tan Families": "Both of them exchange promises to look after one another, and always be together to the end."
- ↑ "Later the kids are told that Xenix-san wanted to retire early, but OS/2-tan confides to 2.0-chan her concerns."
- ↑ "3.0-chan is born and any lingering fear or doubt by 2.0-chan is dispelled by her energetic and bubbly little sister."
- ↑ "OS/2-tan also wants to join them, but is mysteriously put into a near excessive training hours . . ."
- ↑ " OS/2 spots 2.0-chan and screams out some hurried and desperate things that sound like warnings or instructions, but 2.0-chan is taken out of earshot range before she could hear it all."
- ↑ "OS-tan theories and discussion": "the two were still around after NT-san and 95-an were born. But given the direction the company was already going in, the NT and 95 were pushed into training, indoctrination and conditioning almost immediately. Since mixing with their NON-belligerent relatives would've been counterproductive, it's likely neither pair was made to meet one another . . . "
- ↑ Linux-tan comic, page 30
- ↑ "Mac Party Redux!"
- ↑ "Inspiration"
