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''This is the OS-tan for Windows 98, for her OS-kun counterpart, see [[98-kun and 98SE-kun]].''

{{OSinfobox
|image = Win98tan.jpg

|cname = Windows 98-tan
|alias = Hacchan, Memphis, 98 First Edition
|debut = unknown
|height = *none officially listed
|haircolor= navy blue
|eyecolor= blue
|apfaction = [[Windows Family]]
|lineage= [[Win9x| DOS/Win9x]]

|osper = Windows 98 (first edition)
|osdev = Microsoft Corporation
|reldate = v.4.10.1998 (25 Jun 1998)
|lastrel = unknown
}}

==Character Details==
This character represents the first edition of [[wikipedia:Windows 98| Windows 98]]. She is represented as a shy and small pre-teen girl with short navy blue hair with a clip shaped like 98, the Windows logo as part of a necktie and a schoolgirl outfit with a sleeveless white blouse, blue skirt, dark-colored shoes, long socks and gloves.

She is usually seen with [[Windows 98SE| 98SE-tan]], is sometimes depicted as a futanari (hermaphrodite) and is said to fancy [[Homeo]].

Two early designs that continue to be used alongside the 98 an 98SE-tans are a pair of stick-limbed snack-boxes with a face and version number drawn in crayon, based on the Vulcan 300 toy that appeared in the anime series Konjiki no Gash Bell!!/Zatch Bell!. 

This is a holdover from the very early days before the designs of the primary OS-tans had settled. Generic stick-limbed boxes were often used as placeholders; there had been instances of small DOS and Windows 3.11 boxes before other designs gained popularity. 

Both girls now make regular use of these as mechanical suits. The mech-box used by 98 is blue in colour, and likewise the 98SE mech-box has a green theme. The mechs are sometimes shown as guardians or friends to the 98-tans, otherwise the two girls can be seated inside them as pilots. The box sizes can vary, ranging from doll-like when carried by the girls to taller than an adult when they ride inside them. While usually used as toys or weapons, they can serve other purposes, such as a clubhouse, a shelter, or a place to hide. (The boxes also appear to be less stable than the girls themselves; When a non-DOS based OS-tan enters the box, it has a tendency to fall apart.)

==Other roles==
In the [[OSR2.5tan 4Koma| comic that created 95 OSR 2.5-tan]], 98-tan could be considered the main character. [[95 OSR 2.5-tan]] sees her as a rival, but the rivalry isn't mutual, and 98-tan sees her as a well-meaning friend.

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