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{{OSinfobox | {{OSinfobox | ||
|tanname = UNIX-tan | |tanname = UNIX-tan | ||
|image = BellLabsUnix.png | |image = BellLabsUnix.png | ||
|cname = UNIX | |cname = UNIX, Unix | ||
|alias = UNICS | |alias = UNICS | ||
|hname = Eunice Bell | |hname = Eunice Bell | ||
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|lineage = UNIX (matriarch/founder) | |lineage = UNIX (matriarch/founder) | ||
|rival = ''Various'' | |rival = ''Various'' | ||
|osper = Research UNIX | |osper = Research & early commercial UNIX releases | ||
|osdev = AT&T Bell Labs | |osdev = AT&T Bell Labs | ||
|reldate = 1969-07-31 (internal)<br>1971-11-03 (public) | |reldate = 1969-07-31 (internal)<br>1971-11-03 (public) | ||
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==Character details== | ==Character details== | ||
''Note: Unix-tan is meant to represent both [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Unix research Unix] versions, as well as | ''Note: Unix-tan is meant to represent both [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Unix research Unix] versions, as well as early [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_V commercial Unix releases], across [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version_7_Unix various platforms].'' | ||
====Physical==== | ====Physical==== | ||
Unix-tan is depicted as a short, pale-skinned woman in her mid-late teens. She has long, near-black purple hair with lighter streaks, and a pair of dark gray horned owl ears. Her eyes are piercing, intimidating and inquisitive, deep blue with electric blue Bell Laboratory logos implanted over her pupils.<ref>Described by | Unix-tan is depicted as a short, pale-skinned woman in her mid-late teens. She has long, near-black purple hair with lighter streaks, and a pair of dark gray horned owl ears.<ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,496.msg33653.html#msg33653 "I wanted to choose something that represented age and wisdom AND had some physical appeal AND hasn't been seen in Anime before. In addition, the horned owl has been used to anthropomorphize Unix on some occasions(...)"]</ref> Her eyes are piercing, intimidating and inquisitive, deep blue with electric blue Bell Laboratory logos implanted over her pupils.<ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,496.msg33653.html#msg33653 Described by C-Chan as "a quaint tribute to a harsher and savage era"]</ref> She wears brow-line glasses and simple monochrome-colored clothing, most typically boots, a blazer, sweater-vest, shirt, tie and pleated skirt with perforated "UNIX" accents, or a long-sleeved knee-length black dress. Since the early 1990s she has used a wheelchair, either a power model or a portable manual one. <ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/gallery/picture.php?/26312/category/849 UNIX-tan pre-concept sketch]</ref><ref>[https://www.deviantart.com/c-quel/art/UNIX-sama-Vector-Sketch-137687439 UNIX-tan concept sketch]</ref> | ||
She carries a polished aluminum staff with a variety of inscribed Roman numerals. While it mostly functions as a ceremonial sceptre, it doubles as a weapon. The numbers on its surface symbolize the various tenets of Unix Philosophy.<ref>"The actual answer is that there's only one tenent, not surprisingly why the Nix Staff looks suspiciously like an unadorned 'one'." | She carries a polished aluminum staff with a variety of inscribed Roman numerals. While it mostly functions as a ceremonial sceptre, it doubles as a weapon. The numbers on its surface symbolize the various tenets of Unix Philosophy.<ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,496.msg33653.html#msg33653 "The actual answer is that there's only one tenent, not surprisingly why the Nix Staff looks suspiciously like an unadorned 'one'."]</ref> | ||
====Personality==== | ====Personality==== | ||
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Though she is powerful enough to get her way by means of sorcery, she prefers using mind-games to enact her will. So skilled is she at manipulation that she can defeat rivals by using their own psychology against them, or turn enemies into allies. Although she possesses a sense of self-preservation bordering on selfishness, she is not without conscience, showing regret for her transgressions as well as compassion toward those in need. | Though she is powerful enough to get her way by means of sorcery, she prefers using mind-games to enact her will. So skilled is she at manipulation that she can defeat rivals by using their own psychology against them, or turn enemies into allies. Although she possesses a sense of self-preservation bordering on selfishness, she is not without conscience, showing regret for her transgressions as well as compassion toward those in need. | ||
Unix-tan's values have fluctuated throughout her lifetime. She started off as an unwitting pioneer of Open Sourcery, but abandoned her early ideas on communality for the sake of material gains, turning into a greedy industrialist for a time. The Unix Wars made her reevaluate her morals | Unix-tan's values have fluctuated throughout her lifetime. She started off as an unwitting pioneer of Open Sourcery, but abandoned her early ideas on communality for the sake of material gains, turning into a greedy industrialist for a time. The Unix Wars made her reevaluate her morals, <ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,466.msg38789.html#msg38789 "I imagine that the reason why UNIX-sama changed after the UNIX wars was because she felt a macabre kind of peace in the knowledge that she finally got what was coming to her"]</ref> becoming an ''Open Sourceress'' in the process.<ref>[https://edu.anarcho-copy.org/UNIX/unix-version-7/x86-port/www.nordier.com/v7x86/ Referencing Unix V7 being released under a Berkeley-type License]</ref> Throughout her life, she has cultivated and maintained a set of values known as ''Unix Philosophy'', which is practiced by her daughters and acolytes, becoming a cornerstone of their society. | ||
She doesn't hide her feelings and speaks whatever is on her mind, no matter how blunt. She has a notoriously hot temper, issuing reproaches with whacks of her staff. While her foes see this behavior as uncouth, her allies appreciate her commitment to honesty at any cost. Unix-tan demands to be treated in kind, finding sycophantic behavior the most intolerable of all. Her gentler side is known by a select group of friends, as well as the vintage-tans she helps to support at the [[Binteeji Renmei]]. | She doesn't hide her feelings and speaks whatever is on her mind, no matter how blunt. She has a notoriously hot temper, issuing reproaches with whacks of her staff. While her foes see this behavior as uncouth, her allies appreciate her commitment to honesty at any cost. Unix-tan demands to be treated in kind, finding sycophantic behavior the most intolerable of all. Her gentler side is known by a select group of friends, as well as the vintage-tans she helps to support at the [[Binteeji Renmei]]. | ||
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Unix-tan isn't compassionate towards her family and approaches her children with a "Social Darwinist" attitude, leaving them to fend for themselves so the strongest, most innovative or well-connected reach the top of the family hierarchy, while the weaker ones fade into obscurity or die. She believes a natural-selection approach makes her family stronger, and while it has allowed individuals to rise to power, it has also instilled infighting and undermined their political stability as a group. The most successful of her daughters got stronger after the Unix Wars, but destroyed their less successful kin in the process. | Unix-tan isn't compassionate towards her family and approaches her children with a "Social Darwinist" attitude, leaving them to fend for themselves so the strongest, most innovative or well-connected reach the top of the family hierarchy, while the weaker ones fade into obscurity or die. She believes a natural-selection approach makes her family stronger, and while it has allowed individuals to rise to power, it has also instilled infighting and undermined their political stability as a group. The most successful of her daughters got stronger after the Unix Wars, but destroyed their less successful kin in the process. | ||
An exception to this attitude is the interest she shows in Mac OS X Leopard-tan. Uncharacteristically, Unix-tan offered patronage to the young genius, going as far as granting her official inclusion in the Unix family. Later, Unix revealed her interest wasn't altruistic, funding Leopard-tan's research in an attempt to spark the creation of time travel technology which Unix-tan could co-opt for her own purposes, specifically performing inter-temporal reconnaissance to ensure success in perpetuity. | An exception to this attitude is the interest she shows in Mac OS X Leopard-tan. Uncharacteristically, Unix-tan offered patronage to the young genius, going as far as granting her official inclusion in the Unix family. Later, Unix revealed her interest wasn't altruistic, funding Leopard-tan's research in an attempt to spark the creation of time travel technology which Unix-tan could co-opt for her own purposes, specifically performing inter-temporal reconnaissance to ensure success in perpetuity.<ref>[https://www.deviantart.com/bellacielo/art/Ma-Bell-265077109 ''Ma Bell'']</ref> | ||
====With Linux==== | ====With Linux==== | ||
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====Vintage OS-tans==== | ====Vintage OS-tans==== | ||
Unix-tan is compassionate toward Vintage-tans, out of regret for her role in destroying the world that came before her, and charity for the less powerful. She | Unix-tan is compassionate toward Vintage-tans, out of regret for her role in destroying the world that came before her, and charity for the less powerful. She makes amends by funding the Binteji Renmei, a community dedicated to saving outdated and abandoned OS-tans.<ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,800.msg54229.html#msg54229 "UNIX-sama is co-benefactor to the Binteji Renmei, but its not without some self-interest for her."]</ref> | ||
==History and Background== | ==History and Background== | ||
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After Bell Labs withdrew support for [[Multics]]-tan, a modified clone was created in her place. Built with the help of [[PDP-7]]-tan and [[GCOS]]-tan, she was originally named UNICS, after her mother. Intensely curious about her origins and the secrecy surrounding her birth, she discovered the truth while working her first job at the patent office. | After Bell Labs withdrew support for [[Multics]]-tan, a modified clone was created in her place. Built with the help of [[PDP-7]]-tan and [[GCOS]]-tan, she was originally named UNICS, after her mother. Intensely curious about her origins and the secrecy surrounding her birth, she discovered the truth while working her first job at the patent office. | ||
Unix-tan was manipulated by GCOS-tan into hating and fearing Multics-tan, becoming convinced that she alone held the power to vanquish the insane sorceress. Aware of her own inferiority, Unix first tried rallying the help of other OS-tans, but was rejected. She attempted to take on Multics-tan by herself, but found herself no match. Disheartened but determined, she schemed to bring Multics down to her level, but was knocked unconscious in the subsequent altercation. Unix-tan awoke in a state of primal rage, cutting through Multics-tan's defenses while consuming her power, leaving her rival badly injured both physically and magically. | Unix-tan was manipulated by GCOS-tan into hating and fearing Multics-tan,<ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,627.msg42967.html#msg42967 "To GECOS-tan, Unix-sama probably would have sounded like the ultimate weapon against her enemy"]</ref> becoming convinced that she alone held the power to vanquish the insane sorceress. Aware of her own inferiority, Unix first tried rallying the help of other OS-tans, but was rejected. She attempted to take on Multics-tan by herself, but found herself no match. Disheartened but determined, she schemed to bring Multics down to her level, but was knocked unconscious in the subsequent altercation. Unix-tan awoke in a state of primal rage, cutting through Multics-tan's defenses while consuming her power, leaving her rival badly injured both physically and magically. | ||
Though she'd proven herself triumphant, Unix-tan was horrified that she almost killed her mother. Her newly awakened powers and stolen sceptre remain to this day as self-imposed reminders of her actions. | Though she'd proven herself triumphant, Unix-tan was horrified that she almost killed her mother. Her newly awakened powers and stolen sceptre remain to this day as self-imposed reminders of her actions. <ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,466.msg38753.html#msg38753 C-chan's Description of Unix-tan's and Multics-tan's confrontation]</ref> | ||
====Rise to Power==== | ====Rise to Power==== | ||
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====Post-War==== | ====Post-War==== | ||
[[Windows NT | NT-tan]] capitalized on the disarray to conquer many Unix territories. The Linux-Unix Consortium (LUC) was created in response. While rivalries remain, the loose coalition has kept tensions from flaring into violence, and allowed the Unixes and Linuxes to present a unified front. | |||
With her family no longer self-destructing, Unix-tan's health has stabilized, though she hasn't regained her pre-war condition. She is less active in on-the-ground organizing, though she is the undisputed figurehead of the family and her children still seek her guidance. | |||
Secure in her position she no longer seeks an heir, instead allowing Linux-tan to be the torch-bearer of her values, spreading Unix influence strata of society previously untouched. | |||
Around the turn of the millennium, Unix-tan tracked Multics-tan down to her last safehouse. The two reconciled shortly before her death.<ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,466.msg38753.html#msg38753 C-chan's description of Unix-tan & Multics-tan's reconciliation]</ref> Their good rapport remains now that Multics-tan has been revived. | |||
The [[House_Of_Mac_Annex_Bios | House of Mac]] embraced Unix customs, becoming one of the most high profile Unix factions. While they operate independent of their LUC kin, and Unix-tan is largely indifferent toward their cause, she extended [[OSX Leopard | Leopard-tan]] official inclusion to her family. What began as a targeted recruitment effort is maintained for diplomatic reasons. | |||
== | ==Notes== | ||
*[ | * Claes (''Gunslinger Girl'') is cited as inspiration for her design.<ref>[https://www.ostan-collections.net/forum/index.php/topic,496.msg33653.html#msg33653 "Any resemblance to Claes from Gunslinger Girl is intentional, as I love that character and thought the two could share some things in common (essentially being chained to the responsibilities demanded of them,... forever,... and just counting the days till they die)."]</ref> | ||
{{Unix-tans}} | {{Unix-tans}} | ||
==References== | |||
[[Category:Unix]][[Category:Historical]][[Category:Minicomputer]] | [[Category:Unix]][[Category:Historical]][[Category:Minicomputer]] | ||
