More IBM-tans

Chocofreak13 · March 09, 2011, 01:14:12 PM

ah, yes, that picture seems to fit her personality perfectly. -w-
though i must say, my favourite out of all the ones up there is UNIXWARE-tan. ^^

Paul · March 09, 2011, 02:42:12 PM

Absolutely no objections from my side, great design! ^_^
Maybe her hair should be black, considering the fact that virtually all IBM machines are black.

Chocofreak13 · March 09, 2011, 04:31:39 PM

that's a good point, but i think we've seen a couple that weren't raven-haired. it could also depend on her personality. (but that says black hair too, lol xD)

Bella · March 09, 2011, 04:40:10 PM

Unixware, eh? I'm partial to IRIX in that image.

It's interesting that you'd pick black hair for AIX, since most of the IBM-tans are black (or silver) haired and I've speculated that's something of an ethnic trait among their kind. ^^

Chocofreak13 · March 09, 2011, 05:56:54 PM

could be, since families ofter share this sort of thing (dark brown hair runs in my family, for example, and blue eyes were a common trait in my mum's family :3).

i wonder where HT-tan would fall into all of this, since if we're talking genetics then she would have passed along brown hair. :\

Aurora Borealis · March 09, 2011, 06:04:57 PM

OS-tans within a family don't always share hair colors, though some run within families to an extent- look at the Windows-tans and their various hair colors (though many are green or blue-haired), the Apple-tans (Apple I has brown hair, Apple II blonde, III red-brown, the early Macs have dark color or black hair, later Classics have blonde and then there's their step-sisters the OSXs and their various colors...). And then there's the BSD-tans, who all look completely different but are sisters. Just saying there are some exceptions to the rule.

Chocofreak13 · March 09, 2011, 06:54:55 PM

like in any family. :3

Bella · March 09, 2011, 07:33:04 PM

Not to mention the fact that AIX is a Unix, NOT a classic "Big Iron" OS-tan - the ethnic IBMs (think DOS/, BOS/, TOS/ and OS/360, IBSYS, BESYS, UMES and GMOS, plus the other IBM mainframe hardware-tans/-kuns). But dark hair runs in the Unix family too - black, purple and blue being the most common.

Now, the MIT-tans, there's a race with a lot of hair colour variation ... black (mostly via Whirlwind and LINC), red (CTSS) and dark purple (Multics), blonde (PDP-1 and -10, common among DEC-tans) and brown (common among the "MIT-descended IBM-tans" - which really only consists of SAGE and SABRE and CP/CMS).

TL;DR, do as you wish - hair and skin colour aren't really a concern in the OS-taneverse since it's assumed all OS-tans are made with human engineering and can therefor be modified any physical way they wish. Heck, even species variation is fare game - look at all the -tans with avian, feline and canine features.

Chocofreak13 · March 09, 2011, 09:09:27 PM

exactly. ^^

Paul · March 10, 2011, 07:16:22 AM

If I can really do as I wish ...I pick green as the hair colour

(The AIX 7 logo is green, white and blue)
Not that many green-haired -tans out there whereas we have quite a lot of dark haired ones.

Bella · March 10, 2011, 09:54:39 AM

Quote from: Paul on March 10, 2011, 07:16:22 AM
If I can really do as I wish ...I pick green as the hair colour (The AIX 7 logo is green, white and blue)
Not that many green-haired -tans out there whereas we have quite a lot of dark haired ones.

Now we're talking. It's always a good idea to pick something different... bold... and if it happens to tie in with a logo, all the better. :^D

Chocofreak13 · March 10, 2011, 10:48:21 AM

how about dark green? then it fits the mysterious side, too.

Paul · March 10, 2011, 11:00:42 AM

Hmm, the AIX logo is quite a light green...

Though I don't mind if it's dark...

btw, maybe AIX-tan could have an AIX hairclip or something like that? It would also be cool if there was a "POWER" lettering somewhere on her body (AIX runs exclusively on POWER CPUs)

Bella · March 10, 2011, 11:29:56 AM

....how about two-toned dark green with light green highlights? .w.

Tattoos are fun, not too many -tans have them though. (Multics has a labyrinth mark on the V of her chest and VOS-tan has wing tattoos... those are the only inked OS-tans I know of.)

Paul · March 10, 2011, 11:34:42 AM

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....how about two-toned dark green with light green highlights? .w.

AGREED

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Tattoos are fun, not too many -tans have them though. (Multics has a labyrinth mark on the V of her chest and VOS-tan has wing tattoos... those are the only inked OS-tans I know of.)

Hmm, I wasn't even thinking of a tattoo, but rather a lettering on her suit. But I find that idea highly appealing.