QNX
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| QNX-tan | |
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| Character Information | |
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| Common Names | QNX-tan |
| Other Names | QNX Neutrino |
| Human Name(s) | Quinn X. Dodge |
| Faction | Anti$oft Coalition |
| Lineage | independent (influenced by, but not descended from Unix) |
| Rival(s) | OS-9, ROMDOS, Windows CE (competitors among embedded OSes), the Linux/Unix Consortium. |
| Appearance | |
| Height | 168 cm (5'6") |
| Hair Color | cyan |
| Eye Color | yellow |
| Weapon(s) | Photon beam cannon |
| Design | |
| First Appearance | Sep 2006 |
| Technical Information | |
| System Personified | QNX |
| Developer(s) | QNX Software Systems, RIM (since 2010) |
| Debut | 1982 (QNX), 2001 (QNX Neutrino) |
| Latest release | v6.5 (2010-11) |
Technical details
QNX (now known as QNX Neutrino) is a full-featured but minimalist real-time OS that is obscure but extremely widely used in embedded systems. It is an extremely stable system, used in automobiles, industrial applications, medical electronics, nuclear power plants, and powers the world's most powerful router.
QNX became freeware with source code available to hobbyists when QNX Software Systems was bought out by Harmon Kardon in 2004, but the source code became restricted again when QNX was bought out by RIM (Research in Motion) in 2010. A variant of QNX is used as the OS in the Blackberry Playbook.
Character details
General
QNX-tan is represented as cyan-haired woman who dresses in semi-formal attire. She wears buttoned shirts with a lab coat and tie, and the tie always has an even number of tie clips on them, since she counts only (or much prefers to) in even numbers. Her tendency for everything to be even and symmetric references the numbering scheme of QNX, which is now up to version 6.x, but there is no QNX 3 or 5. In her hair, she wears a hair clip on each side, one "QNX"-shaped, the other in the shape of the Neutrino logo.
She is very level-headed, difficult to faze, values minimalism, and doesn't tolerate error from years of experience running mission-critical jobs. Among her fields of experience are mechanical work, nuclear physics, medicine, and medical technology. Her professional attitude even extends into her daily life out of force-of-habit; she is emotionally distant and somewhat reclusive because of all the responsibilities she has. When she interacts with others, she is polite and agreeable, but often doesn't talk with others for long; as a real-time OS-tan, she will drop the conversation when another job needs her attention.
Contrasting with her expertise in various fields of science and engineering, she is terrible at domestic tasks, and her attempts at cooking often turn into dangerous 'science experiments'.
QNX-tan is one of the most powerful OS-tans alive, since QNX is the most powerful and widely-used embedded OS; that gives her a tremendous hardware base to draw power from, but she is reluctant to use that power since she already has several responsibilities, finds it to be more of a burden than it's worth, and is afraid of getting corrupted by it.
Her weapon of choice is a laser cannon that she built herself.