782
edits
Species: Difference between revisions
From OS-Tan Collections Wiki
no edit summary
(Created page with "{{WIP}} Like many aspects of the OS-tan universe, there is no widespread agreement about the nature of the OS-tan - or more accurately, computer-tan - species. This article will...") |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 32: | Line 32: | ||
====Combinations of hardware and software==== | ====Combinations of hardware and software==== | ||
Some computer-tans are depicted as "hybrids" - that is to say, that they represent both the hardware and software or OS components of a system. Little is known about the physical nature of this type of computer-tan, although quite a few exist - especially among microcomputers that ran simple BASIC-based systems rather than full OSes (e.g., the early Apple or Commodore-tans) or pre-operating system computers that were primarily hardware-based with simple software. | Some computer-tans are depicted as "hybrids" - that is to say, that they represent both the hardware and software or OS components of a system. Little is known about the physical nature of this type of computer-tan, although quite a few exist - especially among microcomputers that ran simple BASIC-based systems rather than full OSes (e.g., the early Apple or Commodore-tans) or pre-operating system computers that were primarily hardware-based with simple software (for example, [[Whirlwind]]-tan). | ||
Sometimes, software/hardware hybrid-tans represent entire computer systems or networks that encompass hardware, software and other specialized devices. For instance, [[SAGE]]-tan, who personifies the IBM AN/FSQ-7 computer, the software that ran on said computer and the entire SAGE network. Similarly, [[WWMCCS]]-tan encompasses the vast array of hardware and software used in the WWMMCS system and [[Mertvaya Ruka]] represents the computers and sensory devices that make up the Perimeter System. | |||
====Firmware-tans==== | |||
While a firmware-tan species has been proposed, no firmware-tans have ever been created. | |||
==Evolution of computer-tans== | |||
In the Japanese canon and early OSC "canon"/fanon, hardware-tans are all but ignored. The recent appearance of large numbers of fanon hardware-tans have inspired the creation of theories that explain how software- and OS-tans may have evolved from early ancestral computer-tans. | |||
====The hardware-tan as originator theory==== | |||
Under this theory, hardware-tans were the first species of computer. Hardware/software hybrids would have evolved next, then independent software-tans, and finally OS-tans. | |||
