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|haircolor= blonde | |haircolor= blonde | ||
|eyecolor= blue-green | |eyecolor= blue-green | ||
|weapon= error bombs | |||
|apfaction= [[House of Mac]] | |apfaction= [[House of Mac]] | ||
|lineage= [[Classic Mac]] and/or [[OSX]] | |lineage= [[Classic Mac]] and/or [[OSX]] | ||
|rival= the [[Windows Family]], in particular [[95-tan]]. | |||
|osper=Intended to be all Mac OSes. | |osper=Intended to be all Mac OSes. | ||
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Mac OS-tan was perhaps the first commonly-known and widely-supported Mac-tan during the early days of the OS-tan phenomenon. Given the popularity of the Windows platform, it is likely that Mac OS-tan was simply meant to be a standalone personification of the Mac Operating System, in the same way that [[Linux|Linux-tan]] was meant to be a lump-sum of all Linux distributions. | Mac OS-tan was perhaps the first commonly-known and widely-supported Mac-tan during the early days of the OS-tan phenomenon. Given the popularity of the Windows platform, it is likely that Mac OS-tan was simply meant to be a standalone personification of the Mac Operating System, in the same way that [[Linux|Linux-tan]] was meant to be a lump-sum of all Linux distributions. | ||
[[File:OSXrainbowapple.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Mac-tan with a rainbow apple on her head, a nod to the Classic Mac.]]In early drawings, Mac-tan appears in her standard platinum-white body suit (alluding to the iMac/OSX design motif) but, also with a rainbow-colored apple on her head, a throwback to the classic Macintosh. Some manga strips also featured her battling against [[95-tan|Windows 95-tan]] during the [[OS-tan Wars]], during which time only the | [[File:OSXrainbowapple.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Mac-tan with a rainbow apple on her head, a nod to the Classic Mac.]]In early drawings, Mac-tan appears in her standard platinum-white body suit (alluding to the iMac/OSX design motif) but, also with a rainbow-colored apple on her head, a throwback to the classic Macintosh. Some manga strips also featured her battling against [[95-tan|Windows 95-tan]] during the [[OS-tan Wars]], during which time only the Classic Macs were available (System 7.5, for example), suggesting that she mainly represented the pre-OS9 Mac OSes at first. Even when she represents OSX, 95-tan is still portrayed as her arch-nemesis. | ||
