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====Humans and codespace==== | ====Humans and codespace==== | ||
User NejinOniwa's theories on human-codespace interaction. [http://ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,1539.msg131194.html#msg131194] | User NejinOniwa's theories on human-codespace interaction. [http://ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,1539.msg131194.html#msg131194] | ||
====Operational vs. non-operational OS-tans==== | |||
The working status of an OS or computer has a direct effect on its personification. Often times, when a computer/OS falls out of use, its OS-tan is considered deceased. But there is no widely-accepted classification scheme for those computers and OSes which are between extant and expired. | |||
One theory proposes that there would be a variety of states an OS-tan can fall into: working (still being used for commercial purposes, may be current or non-current), working/hobbyist (systems that are working, but also out-of-date and used as hobbyist computers), hobbyist (no longer used commercially, but maintains a hobby userbase) and non-working, non-hobbyist and fully retired (no known userbase, but the system is still considered "alive"). | |||
Put into OS-tan terms, a working OS-tan would be just that - currently holding down some sort of employment or otherwise contributing to some commercial end. The uses for hobby systems are is harder to define, but it has been speculated that they are kept around as sort of living records of the past, studied by scholars wishing to learn from their archaic forms of magic and about the history they witnessed. They may also be used in contests, reenactments and for other forms of entertainment. Thus, in spite of having a low work value, they are still highly regarded for their historical and recreational purposes. OS-tans who are both working and hobbyist would be a combination of the first two, while non-working, non-hobby systems would be the true retirees of the OS-tan universe, contributing neither to the OS-tan "workforce" nor the field of recreational computing. | |||
MCP-tan, PDP-8-tan, PDP-1-tan and Multics-tan are a good example of each of the respective categories. [http://ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,1539.msg131505.html#msg131505] | |||
==Theories about present and past factions== | ==Theories about present and past factions== | ||
