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==Character details== | ==Character details== | ||
===General=== | ===General=== | ||
A/UX is Apple's first attempt at a Unix-based OS with the Mac OS GUI. | A/UX is Apple's first attempt at a Unix-based OS with the Mac OS GUI. It is a server and network OS, one of its uses was to power the servers at NASA. A/UX-tan is represented as a tall and tanned woman with dark blue hair in curly pigtails, and has blue-green eyes. In her modern-day depictions, she wears a sporty outfit modeled after a stylized spacesuit, with matching moon boots. | ||
Parts of her appearance and personality are based off of A/UX's codenames. Aside from being a reference to A/UX's prior use at NASA, she pilots a rocket ship and is an astronomer in reference to Pigs in Space. She likes to daydream and likes space travel, referencing another of A/UX's codenames- Space Cadet, which her peers use also use as a nickname to her when they see her zone out. Her bandana, and fondness of wrestling are a reference to Hulk Hogan, another codename. | |||
Earlier in her life, when she still lived with the Apple Family, she wore her hair in a ponytail and wore a 1920's style business outfit. She used to be fairly reserved and professional. | |||
Personality-wise, in the present day, A/UX-tan is very tomboyish, boisterous and a daydreamer; much more cheerful and extroverted than she used to be after getting a new lease on life. She is somewhat intimidating at a first glance, but can be helpful and is very straightforward, reference to the Commando utility in A/UX that allows for choosing command line options with simple controls. | |||
Although she is a Unix-tan, she does not consider the Unices to be her family, but rather the Apple-tans who she lived with in her childhood and up to 1996. She has been a wanderer since then; she got evicted from the Apple family during the worst of the OS Wars because she was too costly to keep around. She still has close ties to the extended Apple Family, and visits on occasion. | |||
===Family and relationships=== | ===Family and relationships=== | ||
====Within the Unix Family==== | ====Within the Unix Family==== | ||
A/UX-tan is low-ranked on the Unix family social hierarchy, since A/UX wasn't commercially successful, failed to secure a large server market share, and faded into obscurity after the Unix Wars. Her being one of the first Unix OSes to value the GUI more than the command line also | A/UX-tan is low-ranked on the Unix family social hierarchy, since A/UX wasn't commercially successful, failed to secure a large server market share, and faded into obscurity after the Unix Wars. She would have also been better off in the hierachy if she hadn't been neutral during the wars; if she would have lost anyways, at least she would have lost putting up a fight. Instead, her neutrality was interpreted as cowardice. Her being one of the first Unix OSes to value the GUI more than the command line also made it hard for her to be taken seriously by them. | ||
The Unix-tans are her biological relatives, but she doesn't care for most of them and doesn't consider them her real family. Ever since her debut, however, she attends the Unix Family (now Linux/Unix Consortium) meetings out of obligation to show that she has no intention of being a traitor. Knowing that they hardly take her seriously, or even seem to notice her, she makes the best of the meetings by being the group clown. | The Unix-tans are her biological relatives, but she doesn't care for most of them and doesn't consider them her real family. Ever since her debut, however, she attends the Unix Family (now Linux/Unix Consortium) meetings out of obligation to show that she has no intention of being a traitor. Knowing that they hardly take her seriously, or even seem to notice her, she makes the best of the meetings by being the group clown. | ||
In the present day, UNIX tolerates her for her sense of duty and loyalty, but doesn't seem to acknowledge her very much. | In the present day, UNIX tolerates her for her sense of duty and loyalty, but doesn't seem to acknowledge her very much. | ||
====User Space Gang==== | ====User Space Gang==== | ||
