OS-tan Human Names

This article is a work in progress. …well, all the articles here are, in a way. But this one moreso, and the article may contain incomplete information and editors’ notes.

A very basic table of nicknames and proposed human names for OS-tans. All of these names are fanon at most, though the nicknames for the canon Windows-tans are canon, using them as the OS-tans' real names isn't necessarily.

In recent years, the OS-tan verse has become westernized in much of the fanon, with many of the new OS-tans having only western names. This seems to make the Japanese names and cultural practices of the Windows-tans appear out of place, but are kept for the sake of tradition and the OS-tan phenomenon's Japanese roots. As a compromise between the Japanese roots, and the more Western-style fanon, it has been proposed to try and come up with both Western and Japanese names for OS-tans whenever possible, which ever one being used (if at all), being up to individual preference, and why not? The OS-tan verse setting is already portrayed as anachronistic, why not a cultural fusion too?

List of proposed names

Character	Western name	Japanese name	Common nickname(s)
Windows-tans
Windows 1.0		Kazue Madobe
Windows 2.0		Niiko Madobe
Windows 3.1			Baba-chan, Baba-loli
Windows NT	Mica Allchin	Mika Madobe	Razzle, Daytona
Windows 95		Kanoko Madobe	95-neechan, Chicago
Windows 95 OSR 2.5			Detroit, 95C
Windows 98		Hacchan Madobe	Memphis
Windows 98SE		Secchan Madobe
Windows 2000	(none yet?)	Nisen Madobe	NT 5.0, 2K-san
XP Professional	(none yet?)	Saseko Madobe	Pekepi, Whistler
XP Home	(none yet?)	Homeko Madobe
Windows Vista		Vistake, Visbou, Chivistan Madobe	Vistan
Windows 7	n/a?	Nanami Madobe	Win7, NT 6.1
Windows 8	n/a?	Yu & Ai Madobe, Aya Madobe	Win8, 8-tan
Apple-tans
Apple I	(none yet?)	Kiboriko Ringo	I-okaasama
Apple II	(none yet)	Shiroyuki Ringo
Apple III	Sara Appletree	Sara Ringo
Apple Lisa	Lisa Appletree	Lisa Ringo
GS/OS	Phoenix Appletree	Phoenix Ringo	Cortland, IIGS
Macintosh System 1	(none yet)	Ichigo Fuji
Macintosh System 2	Nina Macintosh	Nina Fuji	Ahiru-chan
Macintosh System 3	Hisca Macintosh	Hinoe, Mitsuko Fuji
Macintosh System 3.4	(none yet)	Sayoko Fuji
Macintosh System 4	(none yet)	Yoko, Shizune Fuji
Macintosh System 5	Phantom Macintosh	(none yet)
Macintosh System 6	Antares Macintosh	(none yet)
Macintosh System 7	(none yet)	Pleiades, Subaru Fuji
Macintosh System 7.5	Amadea Macintosh	Kapone Fuji
Mac OS 8	Veronica Macintosh	Tempo Fuji
Mac OS 9	Sonata Macintosh	Sonata Fuji
OSX Snow Leopard	Snow	Yuki	Full name is Snow Leopard, but goes by "Snow"
Other OS-tans (to be sorted later)
Bell Labs UNIX	Eunice Bell
BESYS	Bethany Murray
BSD	Lilith Joy
BUIC	Becca Forester
Commodore VIC-20	Victoria		Vixen, Volkscomputer
CRAY-1	Corina Seymour
CTSS	Tess Corbató
Mertvaya Ruka	Mertvaya Ruka		Ruka
FLAC	Florence Patrick
FUJIC		Fujiko Okazaki
GCOS	Glenda Oliver
GENIAC	Jeanie Berkeley
Harvard Mark I	Marcie Aiken
Harvard Mark II	Mary Aiken
Harvard Mark III	Addie Aiken
IRIX	Indigo Clark Irix Clark Isaac Clark	Mugen Shoki (書記無限) Ayame Shoki (書記菖蒲) TBD
ITS	Izzy Knight
KolibriOS		Sachi Hachidori	Kori-chan
Linux	Lina Torvalds	Lina	GNU/Linux
LINC	Dr.Lincoln
Lunar Linux	Luna Moonowl	Tsukibukuro (or Tsukiko) Mahoumoto
MCP	Margaret Burroughs
MenuetOS	Minna Turjanmaa		MeOS
Multics	Minerva Corbató
OpenVMS	Vanessa Cutler
OS/8	Octavia DeCastro
PDP-1	Penelope Olsen
PDP-8	Kate DeCastro
QNX	Quinn X. Dodge
Rainbow 100	Rain Decker
RSTS	Ristess Witcraft
RSX	Risa Cutler
RT-11	Rita Bell
SAGE	Gina Forrester
Source Mage		Kurohane Mahoumoto
VAXELN	Ellen Cutler
VME	Vera Boys
VMS	Vanessa Cutler
WAITS	Willow Stanford
Whirlwind	Winifred Forrester
Plan 9	Glenda Bell
WWMCCS	Wimmex
Xenix	Xenia
ORDVAC	Olive von Neuman
OS/software/hardware-kuns
Emacs	Evan MacIntyre
FASTRAND	Randall Sperry "Randy"
IBM 728	Ivan van der Zee
KRONOS	Konrad Fawley
QED	Ted Fredericks
Selectric	Samuel Almächtig
RED	Red
Vi	Victor Joy

How to add names to the table

Table code

{|cellpadding=2 border=1 style= "background:#EFF5FB;"
|- style="background:#AFAFE9;"
!scope="col"|'''Character'''
|scope="col"|'''Western name'''
|scope="col"|'''Japanese name'''
|scope="col"|'''Common nickname(s)'''
|-
|character goes here||western name||japanese name ||other nicknames
|-
|}

Add an entry

Look at this sample row:

|character goes here||western name||japanese name ||other nicknames

The first pipe "|" marks the start of the new row, and because scope="col" is used for each column, the other cells in the row use double pipes "||". The last entry goes to the right of the last double pipes, and is closed off with a

|-

right below the row.

Insert it into the section you are looking for.

Notes about names

Windows-tans

Since the debut of the semi-official Windows 7 mascot, Nanami Madobe, some fans have decided to incorporate Madobe (窓辺 "by the window") as the last name for all Windows-tans.

Mac-tans

Their proposed last name of Fuji for their Japanese names refers to the Japanese Fuji apple.