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==Technical details== | |||
PC DOS was released in 1981 during the era of IBM + Microsoft cooperation. It was essentially a renamed MS DOS but both were marketed seperately- PC DOS was marketed for the IBM PC while Microsoft marketed MS DOS to the open market. PC DOS diverged from MS DOS after the breakup between Microsoft and IBM. | |||
==Character details== | |||
PC-DOS-tan is MS-DOS-tan's (non-canon) twin sister as they were both released during the era of IBM + Microsoft cooperation, and that PC-DOS was essentially a renamed MS-DOS. She is similar in appearance to her with pigtails, round glasses and a school uniform. Her hair is blue, her skirt bears the IBM colors, and she carries an IBM ThinkPad as opposed to MS-DOS-tan's keyboard. | |||
While she and MS-DOS-tan both still harbor an unconscious yearning to be reunited, time and distance have diverged their personalities, which is a parallel to how the PC-DOS and MS-DOS OSes diverged from one another after Microsoft's and IBM's break-up. PC-DOS-tan is now more mature, but ill-tempered and an extreme workaholic. Often she takes on more than she can handle at work. She also acts cool and brooding but it's all actually a facade since deep down inside she still longs for her twin sister, but when they do reunite -and the occasionally get the chance to-, both of their personalities temporarily revert to their former cheerful selves. | |||
She usually accompanies PTS-DOS-tan and vents her feelings to her because PTS-DOS-tan speaks only in Russian, and is incorrectly assumed that she can't understand English. Pilot OS-tan is another of PC-DOS-tan's friends and her closest friend. Even then their favorite pastime is trading insults during a flight. | |||
==History and background== | |||
PC-DOS-tan is the twin sister of MS-DOS-tan; younger sister of [[QDOS | QDOS-tan]] and biological daughter of [[DRDOS | DR-DOS-tan]]. | |||
In the 1980's, she happily grew up as part of the [[Microsoft-IBM Family]] and lived with [[MSDOS | MS-DOS-tan]], [[Windows 1.0 | Windows 1.0-tan]], [[Windows 2.0 | Windows 2.0-tan]], their stepsister [[OS2 | OS/2-tan]], and [[Xenix | Xenix-tan]] the family caretaker. PC-DOS-tan and MS-DOS-tan were especially close and had nearly identical personalities but the break-up of the Microsoft-IBM Family changed both of their personalities radically and during the 1990s, they were only able to confront each other as rivals. | |||
PC-DOS-tan in the present day is affiliated with the [[DOSSE]], a subset of the [[Binteeji Renmei]] where she is reunited with most of her relatives but still has a hard time, being so shell-shocked from the Microsoft-IBM Family break-up in 1990. With the help of her friend Pilot OS-tan who arranges the get-togethers, PC-DOS-tan and MS-DOS-tan are able to reunite from time to time. | |||
She works as a temp for OS/2-tan's struggling business and hates every bit of it, but that work gives what she feels to be a purpose in life. Because of her association with OS/2-tan, she is forced to be involved in some of the [[Anti$oft Coalition]] meetings and the silly antics that ensue and is sometimes tricked into their plans, all of this much to her chagrin. | |||