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**-The de-facto mother figure of the whole Apple Family and its branches. | **-The de-facto mother figure of the whole Apple Family and its branches. | ||
**-A young hippie woman with a penchant for crafts, especially woodworking. | **-A young hippie woman with a penchant for crafts, especially woodworking. | ||
**- | **-Wore a patchy red+orange dress with a white sash, wooden jewelry and wooden shoes. | ||
**- | **-Had a sweet, maternal and optimistic disposition, though was also somewhat of a prankster in her youth. | ||
**-Wanted to spend quality time with all of her daughters, although her health began to decline in '78. | **-Wanted to spend quality time with all of her daughters, although her health began to decline in '78. | ||
**-Lived to see Apple II, Apple III and Lisa, but died shortly after Mac System 1 was born. (development on the Mac started in late '79) | **-Lived to see Apple II, Apple III and Lisa, but died shortly after Mac System 1 was born. (development on the Mac started in late '79) | ||
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*'''aka:''' Bell Operating System | *'''aka:''' Bell Operating System | ||
*'''Debut:''' 1957 | *'''Debut:''' 1957 | ||
*'''Died:''' | *'''Died:''' 1969 | ||
*'''Height:''' 166 cm (~5'5.5") | *'''Height:''' 166 cm (~5'5.5") | ||
*'''Weight:''' ?? kg | *'''Weight:''' ?? kg | ||
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*'''Quick Facts:''' | *'''Quick Facts:''' | ||
**-Daughter of GMOS, half-sister to UMES and IBSYS. | **-Daughter of GMOS-tan, half-sister to UMES-tan and IBSYS-tan. | ||
**-Had many jobs | **-Had many jobs. | ||
**- | **-Loved to sing, might have been the OS for the Daisy Bell computer. | ||
**-Her claim | **-Her claim was disputed with IBSYS-tan. | ||
**- | **-Was hard to get along with. (no technical support) | ||
**-Influenced Multics' creation, and | **-Influenced Multics' creation, and was her first tutor. | ||
**- | **-Was resentful towards Multics and over having to be her tutor, since part of her life force had to be sacrificed in Multics' creation. | ||
**-Wore jewelry with bells in them, and | **-Wore jewelry with bells in them, and dressed with floral accessories. | ||
**-Had long blue hair tied in a bun, decorated with a green ribbon. | |||
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**-Not as formal as SAGE, and quicker to show displays of emotion. | **-Not as formal as SAGE, and quicker to show displays of emotion. | ||
**-Prone to boredom. | **-Prone to boredom. | ||
**- | **-Spent her extensive free time tinkering with spare equipment. | ||
**- | **-Had swift reflexes and a keen sense of observation. | ||
**-Small, thin, typically dresses in plain Air Force fatigues, has short hair and wears metal barrettes. | **-Small, thin, typically dresses in plain Air Force fatigues, has short hair and wears metal barrettes. | ||
**-Died in 1983. | **-Died in 1983. | ||
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**-Did extensive work for the Department of Energy, was highly thought of by her coworkers for her reliability. | **-Did extensive work for the Department of Energy, was highly thought of by her coworkers for her reliability. | ||
**-Embarrassed by her shortcomings (design flaws prevented her from fully utilizing the Cray-1). | **-Embarrassed by her shortcomings (design flaws prevented her from fully utilizing the Cray-1). | ||
**- | **-Received 'preferential treatment' from Cray-1, which only made her feel worse, because she didn't feel worthy of it. | ||
**-Despite that she spent a lot of time with Cray-1, with the supercomputer being practically her only contact with the outside OS world. | **-Despite that she spent a lot of time with Cray-1, with the supercomputer being practically her only contact with the outside OS world. | ||
**-Traveled extensively for work, though her home was at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with her family. | **-Traveled extensively for work, though her home was at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with her family. | ||
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**-Native of Convergent Technologies, but also an honourary Bull-tan (that's GECOS-tan's current corporation, was one of Multics-sama's) and Burroughs-tan. | **-Native of Convergent Technologies, but also an honourary Bull-tan (that's GECOS-tan's current corporation, was one of Multics-sama's) and Burroughs-tan. | ||
**-Friendly with Windows NT-tan (CTOS workstations also supported WNT). | **-Friendly with Windows NT-tan (CTOS workstations also supported WNT). | ||
**- | **-Loved rats, and kept some as pets. | ||
**-Supposedly the third most used workstation OS in the 1980s. | **-Supposedly the third most used workstation OS in the 1980s. | ||
**-Physically a young woman wearing boxy haircut/dress style. | **-Physically a young woman wearing boxy haircut/dress style. | ||
**- | **-Liked to dress in military-style uniforms. | ||
**-Is deceased, but maintains a rather strong following. | **-Is deceased, but maintains a rather strong following. | ||
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**-Served as a teacher and trained several young OS-tans during her life at MIT. | **-Served as a teacher and trained several young OS-tans during her life at MIT. | ||
**-The adoptive mother of Multics-sama, CTSS-tan is typically considered the ultimate ancestor of Unix. | **-The adoptive mother of Multics-sama, CTSS-tan is typically considered the ultimate ancestor of Unix. | ||
**- | **-Felt her greatest accomplishment in life was caring for the young (and sickly) Multics, and seeing to it that she reached adulthood. | ||
**-Also proud of her tutelage of ITS-tan and CP/CMS-tan. | **-Also proud of her tutelage of ITS-tan and CP/CMS-tan. | ||
**-Considerably less grandiloquent than her daughter, CTSS is sometimes mistaken to be a simple or dull personality-- something compounded by her emotionless demeanor. | **-Considerably less grandiloquent than her daughter, CTSS is sometimes mistaken to be a simple or dull personality-- something compounded by her emotionless demeanor. | ||
**- | **-Was distant toward most people and OS-tans, at least those who aren't close friends or her student. | ||
**-A sinophile, she enjoys dressing in Chinese-inspired clothing and partaking in Chinese cultural activities. | **-A sinophile, she enjoys dressing in Chinese-inspired clothing and partaking in Chinese cultural activities. | ||
**-A daughter of Whirlwind-hime and sister of SAGE and PDP-1. | **-A daughter of Whirlwind-hime and sister of SAGE and PDP-1. | ||
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**-Chronically sickly and mentally unstable, she needs an entire staff to tend to her upkeep. | **-Chronically sickly and mentally unstable, she needs an entire staff to tend to her upkeep. | ||
**-Had an entirely female entourage. | **-Had an entirely female entourage. | ||
**- | **-Loved baubles and adorns herself with gaudy jewelry. | ||
**-Obsessed with counting things, she's worked out a system of keeping track of her counts using rings on her fingers. | **-Obsessed with counting things, she's worked out a system of keeping track of her counts using rings on her fingers. | ||
**- | **-Used decimal, not binary as later generations of computers would. | ||
**-Biologically one-of-a-kind, she exerted a great deal of influence upon later computers-tans but left no actual descendants. | **-Biologically one-of-a-kind, she exerted a great deal of influence upon later computers-tans but left no actual descendants. | ||
**-Considered EDVAC her heir. | **-Considered EDVAC her heir. | ||
**-Rivalrous toward Atanasoff-Berry Computer and Z3-tan. | **-Rivalrous toward Atanasoff-Berry Computer and Z3-tan. | ||
**-Mice | **-Mice had been known to next in her ridiculously complex outfits. | ||
**-Died from a lightning strike in 1955. | **-Died from a lightning strike in 1955. | ||
**- | **-Dressed in solid black Greco-Roman-looking outfits decorated with jewels, keeps her hair tied into braids and veiled, wears delicate flip-flop type shoes. | ||
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**-First OS created. Considered very unusual -or even freaky- by her hardware-based contemporaries. | **-First OS created. Considered very unusual -or even freaky- by her hardware-based contemporaries. | ||
**-Still revered by the IBM-tans, though they don't know much, if anything about her. | **-Still revered by the IBM-tans, though they don't know much, if anything about her. | ||
**- | **-Dressed in a mix of Elizabethan and Victorian fashions, in the GM colors. | ||
**- | **-Wore a tiara. | ||
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*'''Quick Facts:''' | *'''Quick Facts:''' | ||
**-Born in the Old IBM Society but sent to Harvard University in her youth. | **-Born in the Old IBM Society but sent to Harvard University in her youth. | ||
**- | **-Had largely forgotten her short time spent at IBM. | ||
**-Rejected her birth-name of ASCC for the title "Mark I“, along with all ties to the IBM culture. | **-Rejected her birth-name of ASCC for the title "Mark I“, along with all ties to the IBM culture. | ||
**-Surprisingly psychologically-stable for a -tan of her time. | **-Surprisingly psychologically-stable for a mainframe-tan of her time. | ||
**-Felt lonely as the only computer-tan in her town, something that lessened when she discovered and befriended Whirlwind. | **-Felt lonely as the only computer-tan in her town, something that lessened when she discovered and befriended Whirlwind. | ||
**-Intelligent and learned but perhaps a bit out-of-touch with the real world. | **-Intelligent and learned but perhaps a bit out-of-touch with the real world. | ||
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**-Somewhat rivalrous with her cousin IBM SSEC. | **-Somewhat rivalrous with her cousin IBM SSEC. | ||
**-Died at an unknown date, interred at Harvard. | **-Died at an unknown date, interred at Harvard. | ||
**- | **-Wore Byzantine-style attire. Believed herself above wearing a standard Navy uniform; tied her hair in two buns. | ||
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*'''Quick Facts:''' | *'''Quick Facts:''' | ||
**-A sailor, navigator and mathematician. | **-A sailor, navigator and mathematician. | ||
**- | **-Was adventurous, has worked for the navy. | ||
**-Also | **-Also did mechanical work, known to be highly prepared for anything. (built-in hardware for several functions) | ||
**- | **-Carried a tool box or tool belt at all times. | ||
**- | **-Followed the family's traditions and philosophies (the Harvard Architecture), but also worked under her own set of strange and strict rules. | ||
**-Her rules | **-Her rules weren't as efficient and easily worries about the smaller details, but got the job done. | ||
**-Usually | **-Usually wore her hair in pigtails, and wore an antiquated sailor-type uniform with poofy sleeves and pants. | ||
**- | **-Wore a black and gray polka-dotted vest. | ||
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**-Cheered up though with the help of her family. | **-Cheered up though with the help of her family. | ||
**-Friendly, cheerful, scatterbrained and has a passion for playing the drums. | **-Friendly, cheerful, scatterbrained and has a passion for playing the drums. | ||
**-Was a naval captain, but | **-Was a naval captain, but dressed in Continental Army uniforms and wore her hair in large hair curlers. | ||
**- | **-Could process great amounts of information at once, yet turning a page in a book was mentally taxing to her. | ||
===Harvard Mark IV=== | ===Harvard Mark IV=== | ||
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*'''Clan:''' IBM | *'''Clan:''' IBM | ||
*'''Debut:''' 1948 | *'''Debut:''' 1948 | ||
*'''Died: | *'''Died:''' 1952 | ||
*'''Height:''' 163 cm (5'4") | *'''Height:''' 163 cm (5'4") | ||
*'''Weight:''' 51 kg (113 lb) | *'''Weight:''' 51 kg (113 lb) | ||
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**-A skilled astronomer. | **-A skilled astronomer. | ||
**-Considered the most beautiful -tan of her era. | **-Considered the most beautiful -tan of her era. | ||
**-Kept "on display"at IBM HQ in New York City, a living testament to her company's technological might. | **-Kept "on display" at IBM HQ in New York City, a living testament to her company's technological might. | ||
**-Unlike most OS-tans of that time, she | **-Unlike most OS-tans of that time, she relished public attention and being in the limelight. | ||
**- | **-Didn't let anyone forget that she knows Thomas Watson Sr. personally. | ||
**-Arguably more | **-Arguably more knowledgeable than her cousin, Harvard Mark I. | ||
**- | **-Was locked in a quiet conflict with her cousin (Harvard Mark I), whom she bragged about having superiority over. | ||
**-Died 1952; she lived a short life, even by 1940s-50s standards. | **-Died 1952; she lived a short life, even by 1940s-50s standards. | ||
**-Dresses in ornate Roman-style outfits. | **-Dresses in ornate Roman-style outfits. | ||
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*'''Quick Facts:''' | *'''Quick Facts:''' | ||
**-Quiet and reserved. | **-Quiet and reserved. | ||
**-UMES-tan's sister, both | **-UMES-tan's sister, both were direct descendants of GMOS-sama. | ||
**-A rocket scientist. | **-A rocket scientist. | ||
**-Obsessed with sorting and filing things. | **-Obsessed with sorting and filing things. | ||
**- | **-Liked to perform card tricks. | ||
**- | **-Dressed conservatively, and wore high-collared dresses. | ||
**- | **-Dressed mainly in dark green and grey- the IBM 7094 colors. | ||
**-Died with the shut down of the last IBM 7090. Her last job was in the military. | **-Died with the shut down of the last IBM 7090. Her last job was in the military. | ||
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**-Younger sister of CrTSS-tan. | **-Younger sister of CrTSS-tan. | ||
**-Direct successor to her mother (CrTSS and LTSS), eventually attempted to usurp her sister. | **-Direct successor to her mother (CrTSS and LTSS), eventually attempted to usurp her sister. | ||
**- | **-Was the one that really holds her family together; also sees Cray-1 as an interloper. | ||
**- | **-Talked a lot (For both, was the first LLNL OS that could actually communicate well), and tries to get them her mother and sister to socialize more. | ||
**-Often overlooked by her fellow researchers or scientists, most going straight to her sister, often confused with CrTSS to her consternation (users often couldn't tell they were using a different OS for cosmetic reasons). | **-Often overlooked by her fellow researchers or scientists, most going straight to her sister, often confused with CrTSS to her consternation (users often couldn't tell they were using a different OS for cosmetic reasons). | ||
**- | **-Was terrible with secrets (Any password could access data in her memory). | ||
**- | **-Had trouble remembering who her users were, which could be a problem. | ||
**-Ended her career working on lower end computers as a clerk. | **-Ended her career working on lower end computers as a clerk. | ||
**- | **-Looked almost just like her sister, but with brown hair and tends to dress better. | ||
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**-RW-300 was employed successfully in different chemical plants, refineries and nuclear power plants. | **-RW-300 was employed successfully in different chemical plants, refineries and nuclear power plants. | ||
**-Mysterious, known mostly for her work and not her personality. (little info on the OS, but it did make an impact on the industry) | **-Mysterious, known mostly for her work and not her personality. (little info on the OS, but it did make an impact on the industry) | ||
**-Like her daughter and granddaughter, she | **-Like her daughter and granddaughter, she was a loner. | ||
**-A very skilled chemist, has skills bordering on alchemy. This is a two-pronged reference; both to RW-300's use in the chemical industry AND a throwback to RSX-11-tan and VMS-sama's alchemical/geomancy skills. | **-A very skilled chemist, has skills bordering on alchemy. This is a two-pronged reference; both to RW-300's use in the chemical industry AND a throwback to RSX-11-tan and VMS-sama's alchemical/geomancy skills. | ||
**- | **-Had a foggy short-term memory in matters not pertaining to work. (Computer had a small memory capacity but that didn't diminish its usefulness). She was quick-thinking and fast on her feet (realtime OS). | ||
**-RSX 11-tan is her daughter, though RSX 11-tan doesn't know her real heritage (having only been raised in DEC by DOS Batch 11-tan). Whether RW-300-tan knew of their relationship is unknown. | **-RSX 11-tan is her daughter, though RSX 11-tan doesn't know her real heritage (having only been raised in DEC by DOS Batch 11-tan). Whether RW-300-tan knew of their relationship is unknown. | ||
**- | **-Had dark skin, long hair, and dressed in utilitarian clothing. | ||
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**-One of the last tape driven OSes. | **-One of the last tape driven OSes. | ||
**-Twin sister to BOS/360, both were quickly replaced by OS/360 as their successor. | **-Twin sister to BOS/360, both were quickly replaced by OS/360 as their successor. | ||
**-Unfortunately self destructive, | **-Unfortunately self destructive, unstable, hated everyone and everything else with a passion except OS/360, for some reason. | ||
**-Loved magnetic tape and wrapped things in it. | **-Loved magnetic tape and wrapped things in it. | ||
**-Came across as sort of a zealot. | **-Came across as sort of a zealot. | ||
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**-An avid reader of MAD Magazine. | **-An avid reader of MAD Magazine. | ||
**-A contemporary and friend of CTSS-tan. | **-A contemporary and friend of CTSS-tan. | ||
**- | **-Had wavy blonde hair, and wore glasses. | ||
**-Her dresses | **-Her dresses were blue and brown, worn with a scarf and had a winter flair to them. | ||
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*'''Quick Facts:''' | *'''Quick Facts:''' | ||
**-TOPS 10-tan's estranged daughter. | **-TOPS 10-tan's estranged daughter. | ||
**-Her eclectic personality | **-Her eclectic personality could best be described as a mix of beatnik, bohemian and hippie. | ||
**-A jack-of-all-trades, she showed considerable talent in the fields of mathematics, language, music and psychology. | **-A jack-of-all-trades, she showed considerable talent in the fields of mathematics, language, music and psychology. | ||
**-Also an inventor. | **-Also an inventor. | ||
**-Notable for her progressive attitude, love of fun, free love and debauchery. | **-Notable for her progressive attitude, love of fun, free love and debauchery. | ||
**- | **-Had an affable and people-oriented personality. | ||
**-Friends with other free-thinking -tans of the day, like ITS-tan and Emacs-kun. | **-Friends with other free-thinking -tans of the day, like ITS-tan and Emacs-kun. | ||
**-A Tolkien fan, she | **-A Tolkien fan, she was fluent in Elvish. | ||
**- | **-Dressed in a colourful mix of 19th-century bohemian and 1960s hippie fashion. | ||
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*'''Quick Facts:''' | *'''Quick Facts:''' | ||
**-A lifelong Hub resident, she | **-A lifelong Hub resident, she spoke with a heavy Boston accent. (tending toward a Dorchester dialect) | ||
**-An engineer by trade . | **-An engineer by trade . | ||
**-Originally a Naval reservist, later discharged and employed by the Air Force. | **-Originally a Naval reservist, later discharged and employed by the Air Force. | ||
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**-These extended her life (and led directly to PDP-1's birth), but stressed her system. Spent the next decade or so in and out of a coma. | **-These extended her life (and led directly to PDP-1's birth), but stressed her system. Spent the next decade or so in and out of a coma. | ||
**-Died 1973. | **-Died 1973. | ||
**- | **-Donned ornate 19th century-style gowns (labcoats while on the job), vacuum-tube inspired jewelry, tied her long hair in braids and with ribbons. Wore glasses. | ||
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**-GECOS' adoptive daughter. | **-GECOS' adoptive daughter. | ||
**-Possibly a complex about the various Secretaries of Defense. | **-Possibly a complex about the various Secretaries of Defense. | ||
**- | **-Had some trouble managing data and messages, but try's as hard as she can with limited resources. | ||
**- | **-Felt guilty about the USS Liberty incident, and the congressional censure. | ||
**- | **-Got along with most OS and hardware -tans. (The DoD used a variety of systems as part of WWMCCS) | ||
**-Felt redeemed by her performance in Desert Shield and Desert Storm after her modernization. | **-Felt redeemed by her performance in Desert Shield and Desert Storm after her modernization. | ||
**-Crushed by the 'rejection' of the SecDef to modernize her again after the Gulf War. | **-Crushed by the 'rejection' of the SecDef to modernize her again after the Gulf War. | ||
**-Disappeared from her DoD office sometime in 1996, hasn't been seen since, unknown if it was of her own free will. | **-Disappeared from her DoD office sometime in 1996, hasn't been seen since, unknown if it was of her own free will. | ||
**-Is presumed to be deceased. | **-Is presumed to be deceased. | ||
**- | **-Wore rings on each finger that allowed for data control and manipulation. | ||
**-Missing an eye, wore an eyepatch, and appeared to be sleep-deprived. | **-Missing an eye, wore an eyepatch, and appeared to be sleep-deprived. | ||
**-Wore civilian business attire. | **-Wore civilian business attire. | ||
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**-The only Unix allied with Microsoft, she was unconditionally devoted to the company. | **-The only Unix allied with Microsoft, she was unconditionally devoted to the company. | ||
**-Considered a traitor by her fellow Unix-tans, which led to her death. | **-Considered a traitor by her fellow Unix-tans, which led to her death. | ||
**- | **-Acted as a loyal custodian to the early Microsoft/IBM family -tans: Altair 8800, MS- and PCDOS, Windows 1.0, 2.0 and OS/2-tan. | ||
**- | **-Had a cheerless, austere and perfectionist personality, yet was surprisingly gentle with her charges. | ||
**-A skillful melee fighter, she was employed as an assassin (her choice weapon being a wire garrote). | **-A skillful melee fighter, she was employed as an assassin (her choice weapon being a wire garrote). | ||
**-Retired from Microsoft and never got to see the family she loved so much grow in power and influence. | **-Retired from Microsoft and never got to see the family she loved so much grow in power and influence. | ||
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**-Was sent to fight in the front lines of the war, where she was killed in action. | **-Was sent to fight in the front lines of the war, where she was killed in action. | ||
**-Missed by few and largely forgotten. | **-Missed by few and largely forgotten. | ||
**- | **-Had shoulder-length blue hair, hazel eyes, during her time at Microsoft wore a maid-like uniform and bonnet. | ||
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Revision as of 18:04, 6 July 2019
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. |
Deceased OS-tans
AMIX
- Data Pending
Apple I
- Name: Apple I-tan
- aka: "Apple-1", "Apple 1-okaasama"
- Debut: 4/1/1976
- Height: 150 cm (4'11")
- Weight: ?? kg
- Eye Color: Green
- Hair: Brown
- Quick Facts:
- -The de-facto mother figure of the whole Apple Family and its branches.
- -A young hippie woman with a penchant for crafts, especially woodworking.
- -Wore a patchy red+orange dress with a white sash, wooden jewelry and wooden shoes.
- -Had a sweet, maternal and optimistic disposition, though was also somewhat of a prankster in her youth.
- -Wanted to spend quality time with all of her daughters, although her health began to decline in '78.
- -Lived to see Apple II, Apple III and Lisa, but died shortly after Mac System 1 was born. (development on the Mac started in late '79)
- -Spent most of her time with Apple II to teach her the things that will ensure a better future for her and her sisters.
- -Was last seen by Lisa in her final moments, and apologized to her for not being able to spend much time with her before passing away.
- -Her body is preserved and kept in a mausoleum whose location and existence is only known to Lisa.
- -Was childhood friends with Altair.
ARX
- Data Pending
AVIDAC
- Data Pending
BESK
- Data Pending
BESYS
[[File: ]]
- Name: BESYS-tan
- aka: Bell Operating System
- Debut: 1957
- Died: 1969
- Height: 166 cm (~5'5.5")
- Weight: ?? kg
- Eye Color: Blue
- Hair: Dark blue
- Quick Facts:
- -Daughter of GMOS-tan, half-sister to UMES-tan and IBSYS-tan.
- -Had many jobs.
- -Loved to sing, might have been the OS for the Daisy Bell computer.
- -Her claim was disputed with IBSYS-tan.
- -Was hard to get along with. (no technical support)
- -Influenced Multics' creation, and was her first tutor.
- -Was resentful towards Multics and over having to be her tutor, since part of her life force had to be sacrificed in Multics' creation.
- -Wore jewelry with bells in them, and dressed with floral accessories.
- -Had long blue hair tied in a bun, decorated with a green ribbon.
BOS/360
[[File: ]]
- Name: BOS/360-tan
- aka: "Basic Operating System/360"
- Clan: IBM (System/360 branch)
- Debut: 1965
- Died: unknown
- Height: 146 cm (~4'9.5")
- Weight: 36 kg (80 lb)
- Eye Color: Grey
- Hair: Dark grey
- Quick Facts:
- -First OS for the System/360, and the oldest of the System/360 OS-tans.
- -A bit awkward with her family, had an obsession with punch cards.
- -Tended to be fatalistic, knowing that she was born already obsolete, to be quickly superseded by DOS/360.
- -Was borderline suicidal.
- -Mentor to DOS/360, not really fond of OS/360 but tolerated her.
- -Judged unfit for active duty, being physically weak, instead primarily worked in operations.
- -Was nevertheless proud of being an IBM-tan.
- -Physically thin, wore a hat and coat over her punch card-patterned gown.
BTSS
- Data Pending
BUIC
[[File: ]]
- Name: BUIC-san
- aka: Backup Interceptor, "Becca"
- Debut: 1971
- Died: 1983
- Height: 155 cm (5'1")
- Weight: 47 kg (105 lb)
- Eye Color: Blue w/ gold highlights
- Hair: Red
- Quick Facts:
- -SAGE's daughter.
- -A fill-in for SAGE, she was prevented from being with her mother for reasons of operational security.
- -The two had a loving relationship otherwise and often corresponded by letter.
- -As spirited as her mum but rather unmotivated.
- -Not as formal as SAGE, and quicker to show displays of emotion.
- -Prone to boredom.
- -Spent her extensive free time tinkering with spare equipment.
- -Had swift reflexes and a keen sense of observation.
- -Small, thin, typically dresses in plain Air Force fatigues, has short hair and wears metal barrettes.
- -Died in 1983.
CAOS
- Data Pending
CDC MASTER
- Data Pending
Cray Time Sharing System (CrTSS)
[[File: ]]
- Name: Cray Time Sharing System-tan
- aka: "CrTSS"
- Debut: 1976
- Died: late 1980's
- Height: ??? cm
- Weight: ?? kg
- Eye Color: Blue
- Hair: Light blue
- Quick Facts:
- -Indirect descendent of the IAS physicists.
- -Actually isn't insane, also didn't do much work on nuclear weapons.
- -Tends to be quiet and hard working, also rather reclusive and rarely left the labs in which she worked.
- -Did extensive work for the Department of Energy, was highly thought of by her coworkers for her reliability.
- -Embarrassed by her shortcomings (design flaws prevented her from fully utilizing the Cray-1).
- -Received 'preferential treatment' from Cray-1, which only made her feel worse, because she didn't feel worthy of it.
- -Despite that she spent a lot of time with Cray-1, with the supercomputer being practically her only contact with the outside OS world.
- -Traveled extensively for work, though her home was at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with her family.
- -Elder sister of NLTSS-tan, often confused for one another for cosmetic reasons.
- -Daughter of LTSS-san, never realized how much her mother hated Cray-1.
CSIRAC
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CTOS
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- Name: Convergent Technologies OS-tan
- aka: "CTOS", "BTOS", "STARSYS"
- Debut: late 70's/early 80's
- Died: unknown
- Height: 167 cm (~5'6")
- Weight: 58 kg (128 lb)
- Eye Color: Green
- Hair: Blonde
- Quick Facts:
- -Worked for several government and military organizations, most notably the Coast Guard.
- -Native of Convergent Technologies, but also an honourary Bull-tan (that's GECOS-tan's current corporation, was one of Multics-sama's) and Burroughs-tan.
- -Friendly with Windows NT-tan (CTOS workstations also supported WNT).
- -Loved rats, and kept some as pets.
- -Supposedly the third most used workstation OS in the 1980s.
- -Physically a young woman wearing boxy haircut/dress style.
- -Liked to dress in military-style uniforms.
- -Is deceased, but maintains a rather strong following.
CTSS
- Name: CTSS-san
- aka: "Compatible Timesharing System", "Tess"
- Clan: MIT
- Debut: 1961
- Died: 1973
- Height: 168 cm (5'6")
- Weight: 56 kg (123 lb)
- Eye Color: Red-brown
- Hair: Dark red
- Quick Facts:
- -Served as a teacher and trained several young OS-tans during her life at MIT.
- -The adoptive mother of Multics-sama, CTSS-tan is typically considered the ultimate ancestor of Unix.
- -Felt her greatest accomplishment in life was caring for the young (and sickly) Multics, and seeing to it that she reached adulthood.
- -Also proud of her tutelage of ITS-tan and CP/CMS-tan.
- -Considerably less grandiloquent than her daughter, CTSS is sometimes mistaken to be a simple or dull personality-- something compounded by her emotionless demeanor.
- -Was distant toward most people and OS-tans, at least those who aren't close friends or her student.
- -A sinophile, she enjoys dressing in Chinese-inspired clothing and partaking in Chinese cultural activities.
- -A daughter of Whirlwind-hime and sister of SAGE and PDP-1.
- -Died young, in the year 1973, on the same day as Whirlwind.
CYCLONE
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DOS-11
- Name: DOS/Batch 11-tan
- aka: DOS-11
- Clan: DEC, PDP-11 line
- Debut: 1970
- Died: circa 1974
- Height: 150 cm (4'11")
- Weight: 47 kg (104 lb)
- Eye Color: Light green
- Hair: Silver
- Quick Facts:
- -Borderline psychotic.
- -Notoriously temperamental and unpredictable, even toward her friends and users.
- -The adoptive mother of RSTS and RT-11. Claims to be RSX's mother, despite no evidence of their being related.
- -Wields a butcher knife and established the DEC-tan tradition of bladed weaponry.
- -Particularly enjoys messing with Unix-sama, with whom she has a rivalry.
- -Abusive toward RT-11, who she felt stole her userbase.
- -A bit weak and sickly, but doesn't allow her handicaps to get in her way.
- -Physically a short teenage girl, with short silver hair, glasses and a red and white schoolgirl-like uniform
- -Died sometime in the mid 1970s.
EDVAC
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EMAG III
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ENIAC
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- Name: ENIAC-sama
- aka: Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer
- Debut: ~1943-1945
- Died: 1955
- Height: 170 cm (5'7")
- Weight: 59 kg (130 lb)
- Eye Color: Grey
- Hair: Black
- Quick Facts:
- -A mathematician, employed to do work too difficult for human beings.
- -Worked for the US Army during WWII.
- -Suffers from anterograde amnesia.
- -Chronically sickly and mentally unstable, she needs an entire staff to tend to her upkeep.
- -Had an entirely female entourage.
- -Loved baubles and adorns herself with gaudy jewelry.
- -Obsessed with counting things, she's worked out a system of keeping track of her counts using rings on her fingers.
- -Used decimal, not binary as later generations of computers would.
- -Biologically one-of-a-kind, she exerted a great deal of influence upon later computers-tans but left no actual descendants.
- -Considered EDVAC her heir.
- -Rivalrous toward Atanasoff-Berry Computer and Z3-tan.
- -Mice had been known to next in her ridiculously complex outfits.
- -Died from a lightning strike in 1955.
- -Dressed in solid black Greco-Roman-looking outfits decorated with jewels, keeps her hair tied into braids and veiled, wears delicate flip-flop type shoes.
GEORGE
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GMOS
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- Name: General Motors Operating System
- aka: GM-NAA I/0
- Debut: 1955
- Died: mid-1960's
- Height: 167 cm (~5'6")
- Weight: ?? kg
- Eye Color: Light blue
- Hair: Light brown
- Quick Facts:
- -Older sisters were ASCC/Harvard Mark I and SSEC, but they died before she could meet them.
- -Matriarch of all later IBM-tans.
- -Mother of UMES, IBSYS and BESYS.
- -Was a queen-like figure and revered as such.
- -Had an array of assembly line workers.
- -First OS created. Considered very unusual -or even freaky- by her hardware-based contemporaries.
- -Still revered by the IBM-tans, though they don't know much, if anything about her.
- -Dressed in a mix of Elizabethan and Victorian fashions, in the GM colors.
- -Wore a tiara.
Harvard Mark I
- Name: Harvard Mark I-sama
- aka: IBM ASCC (Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator)
- Clan: IBM (defected)
- Debut: 1944
- Died: circa 1950's
- Height: 165 cm (5'5")
- Weight: 52 kg (116 lb)
- Eye Color: Green
- Hair: Brown
- Quick Facts:
- -Born in the Old IBM Society but sent to Harvard University in her youth.
- -Had largely forgotten her short time spent at IBM.
- -Rejected her birth-name of ASCC for the title "Mark I“, along with all ties to the IBM culture.
- -Surprisingly psychologically-stable for a mainframe-tan of her time.
- -Felt lonely as the only computer-tan in her town, something that lessened when she discovered and befriended Whirlwind.
- -Intelligent and learned but perhaps a bit out-of-touch with the real world.
- -Outwardly meek and withdrawn, but warms up with familiarity.
- -A WAVES ensign, her skills were put to use by the US Navy.
- -Mother of Harvard Mark II, III and IV.
- -Suffered from empty-nest syndrome when her two eldest children were removed from her care and stationed in Virginia.
- -Somewhat rivalrous with her cousin IBM SSEC.
- -Died at an unknown date, interred at Harvard.
- -Wore Byzantine-style attire. Believed herself above wearing a standard Navy uniform; tied her hair in two buns.
Harvard Mark II
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- Name: Harvard Mark II-san
- aka:
- Debut: 1947
- Died: unknown
- Height: 163 cm (5'4")
- Weight: ??kg
- Eye Color: Gold
- Hair: Brown
- Quick Facts:
- -A sailor, navigator and mathematician.
- -Was adventurous, has worked for the navy.
- -Also did mechanical work, known to be highly prepared for anything. (built-in hardware for several functions)
- -Carried a tool box or tool belt at all times.
- -Followed the family's traditions and philosophies (the Harvard Architecture), but also worked under her own set of strange and strict rules.
- -Her rules weren't as efficient and easily worries about the smaller details, but got the job done.
- -Usually wore her hair in pigtails, and wore an antiquated sailor-type uniform with poofy sleeves and pants.
- -Wore a black and gray polka-dotted vest.
Harvard Mark III
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- Name: Harvard Mark III-tan
- aka: ADEC
- Debut: 1949
- Died: unknown
- Height: 169 cm (~5'6.5")
- Weight: ?? kg
- Eye Color:Gold
- Hair: Brown
- Quick Facts:
- -Was the fastest computer for her time.
- -Was outpaced, and lamented her fall from that status.
- -Cheered up though with the help of her family.
- -Friendly, cheerful, scatterbrained and has a passion for playing the drums.
- -Was a naval captain, but dressed in Continental Army uniforms and wore her hair in large hair curlers.
- -Could process great amounts of information at once, yet turning a page in a book was mentally taxing to her.
Harvard Mark IV
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IBM SSEC
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- Name: IBM SSEC
- aka: Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator, "Poppa"
- Clan: IBM
- Debut: 1948
- Died: 1952
- Height: 163 cm (5'4")
- Weight: 51 kg (113 lb)
- Eye Color: Gold
- Hair: Red
- Quick Facts:
- -A skilled astronomer.
- -Considered the most beautiful -tan of her era.
- -Kept "on display" at IBM HQ in New York City, a living testament to her company's technological might.
- -Unlike most OS-tans of that time, she relished public attention and being in the limelight.
- -Didn't let anyone forget that she knows Thomas Watson Sr. personally.
- -Arguably more knowledgeable than her cousin, Harvard Mark I.
- -Was locked in a quiet conflict with her cousin (Harvard Mark I), whom she bragged about having superiority over.
- -Died 1952; she lived a short life, even by 1940s-50s standards.
- -Dresses in ornate Roman-style outfits.
IBSYS
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- Name:IBSYS-tan
- aka: SHARE
- Debut: 1959 (as SHARE OS)
- Died: mid 1980's
- Height: 168 cm (5'6")
- Weight: ??kg
- Eye Color: Light blue
- Hair: Grey
- Quick Facts:
- -Quiet and reserved.
- -UMES-tan's sister, both were direct descendants of GMOS-sama.
- -A rocket scientist.
- -Obsessed with sorting and filing things.
- -Liked to perform card tricks.
- -Dressed conservatively, and wore high-collared dresses.
- -Dressed mainly in dark green and grey- the IBM 7094 colors.
- -Died with the shut down of the last IBM 7090. Her last job was in the military.
Kenbak-1
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Manchester Mark I
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MANIAC
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MISTIC
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MONECS
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MUSASINO-1
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MTS
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MSOS
- aka: "Mass Storage Operating System"
Network Livermore Time Sharing System
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- Name: Network Livermore Time Sharing System-tan
- aka: NLTSS
- Debut: 1979
- Died: 1994
- Height: ???cm
- Weight: ??kg
- Eye Color: Blue
- Hair: Brown
- Quick Facts:
- -Younger sister of CrTSS-tan.
- -Direct successor to her mother (CrTSS and LTSS), eventually attempted to usurp her sister.
- -Was the one that really holds her family together; also sees Cray-1 as an interloper.
- -Talked a lot (For both, was the first LLNL OS that could actually communicate well), and tries to get them her mother and sister to socialize more.
- -Often overlooked by her fellow researchers or scientists, most going straight to her sister, often confused with CrTSS to her consternation (users often couldn't tell they were using a different OS for cosmetic reasons).
- -Was terrible with secrets (Any password could access data in her memory).
- -Had trouble remembering who her users were, which could be a problem.
- -Ended her career working on lower end computers as a clerk.
- -Looked almost just like her sister, but with brown hair and tends to dress better.
NLS
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ORACLE
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Oregon State Open Shop OS
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RW-300
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- Name: Ramo-Woolridge RW-300 Realtime Executive-tan
- aka: "RW-300"
- Debut: late 1950's
- Died: unknown
- Height: ??? cm
- Weight: ?? kg
- Eye Color: Red-brown
- Hair: Dark grey
- Quick Facts:
- -Ultimate ancestor of RSX 11, OpenVMS and Windows NT-tan, and thus all modern Windows OS-tans.
- -RW-300 was employed successfully in different chemical plants, refineries and nuclear power plants.
- -Mysterious, known mostly for her work and not her personality. (little info on the OS, but it did make an impact on the industry)
- -Like her daughter and granddaughter, she was a loner.
- -A very skilled chemist, has skills bordering on alchemy. This is a two-pronged reference; both to RW-300's use in the chemical industry AND a throwback to RSX-11-tan and VMS-sama's alchemical/geomancy skills.
- -Had a foggy short-term memory in matters not pertaining to work. (Computer had a small memory capacity but that didn't diminish its usefulness). She was quick-thinking and fast on her feet (realtime OS).
- -RSX 11-tan is her daughter, though RSX 11-tan doesn't know her real heritage (having only been raised in DEC by DOS Batch 11-tan). Whether RW-300-tan knew of their relationship is unknown.
- -Had dark skin, long hair, and dressed in utilitarian clothing.
SARA
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SILLIAC
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SpringOS
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SpriteOS
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Thoth
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TOS/360
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- Name: TOS/360-san
- aka: "Tape Operating System/360"
- Clan: IBM (System/360 branch)
- Debut: 1965
- Died: unknown (circa early 70's)
- Height: 162 cm (5'4")
- Weight: ?? kg
- Eye Color: Grey
- Hair: Black
- Quick Facts:
- -One of the last tape driven OSes.
- -Twin sister to BOS/360, both were quickly replaced by OS/360 as their successor.
- -Unfortunately self destructive, unstable, hated everyone and everything else with a passion except OS/360, for some reason.
- -Loved magnetic tape and wrapped things in it.
- -Came across as sort of a zealot.
- -A berserker in battle with enemies of IBM, used tape driven weapons.
- -Had medium-length ruffled black hair, wore tattered clothes draped in strands of magnetic tape.
TSS/360
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- Name: TSS/360-san
- aka: "Time Sharing System/360"
- Clan: IBM (System/360 branch)
- Debut: 1967
- Died: 1971
- Height: 168 cm (5'6")
- Weight: ??kg
- Eye Color: Grey
- Hair: Blonde
- Quick Facts:
- -One of the second generation System/360 sisters.
- -Didn't get along with OS/360, but still followed her orders. Treated DOS/360 like a little kid.
- -Had a superb memory.
- -The most inventive, but most fragile of the 2nd Gen sisters.
- -Experimented in open sorcery and could manifest 'virtual' familiars for battle.
- -Supposed to be the IBM-tan to do battle against Multics, but OS/360 could never bring herself to order her to.
- -Not the orator of the group, and instead spent most of her time experimenting.
- -Scheduled her day closely, and followed it.
- -Had long blonde hair and a tan, wore frilly classical gowns comparable to Multics'.
- -Was deemed too ambitious for her own good and developed a major inferiority complex. Ultimately abandoned and died in obscurity.
Tynix
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UMES
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- Name: UMES-tan
- aka: "University of Michigan Executive System"
- Debut: 1958
- Died: circa 1967-8
- Height: 158 cm (5'2")
- Weight: ??kg
- Eye Color: Blue
- Hair: Blonde
- Quick Facts:
- -Predecessor and older sister to MTS-tan.
- -IBSYS-tan's (twin?) sister.
- -Jealous of MTS's widespread attention and overall flashiness.
- -Otherwise good-natured, and had a subtle sense of humor.
- -An avid reader of MAD Magazine.
- -A contemporary and friend of CTSS-tan.
- -Had wavy blonde hair, and wore glasses.
- -Her dresses were blue and brown, worn with a scarf and had a winter flair to them.
WAITS
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- Name: WAITS-tan
- aka: "SAIL", "Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab"
- Debut: 1966
- Died: 1991
- Height: 168 cm (5'6")
- Weight: 57 kg (126 lb)
- Eye Color: Green
- Hair: Light brown
- Quick Facts:
- -TOPS 10-tan's estranged daughter.
- -Her eclectic personality could best be described as a mix of beatnik, bohemian and hippie.
- -A jack-of-all-trades, she showed considerable talent in the fields of mathematics, language, music and psychology.
- -Also an inventor.
- -Notable for her progressive attitude, love of fun, free love and debauchery.
- -Had an affable and people-oriented personality.
- -Friends with other free-thinking -tans of the day, like ITS-tan and Emacs-kun.
- -A Tolkien fan, she was fluent in Elvish.
- -Dressed in a colourful mix of 19th-century bohemian and 1960s hippie fashion.
WEIZAC
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Whirlwind I
- Name: Whirlwind-hime
- aka: Whirlwind I
- Debut: 1944
- Died: 1973
- Height: 170 cm (5'7")
- Weight: 61 kg (135 lb)
- Eye Color: Blue
- Hair: Black
- Quick Facts:
- -A lifelong Hub resident, she spoke with a heavy Boston accent. (tending toward a Dorchester dialect)
- -An engineer by trade .
- -Originally a Naval reservist, later discharged and employed by the Air Force.
- -Harbours a vendetta against the Navy, her discharge from which she took as a personal affront.
- -Generally good-natured and genteel.
- -Been known to display an ill temper at times.
- -Played an instrumental part in the creation of two of her three children.
- -Considered creating and raising SAGE her life's motivation.
- -Work kept her away from SAGE, but the two managed to keep a good rapport.
- -Spent more time with her other children, PDP-1 and CTSS.
- -Employed and in good health until 1959.
- -Was subject to a series of experimental surgeries. (the TX-0 Project)
- -These extended her life (and led directly to PDP-1's birth), but stressed her system. Spent the next decade or so in and out of a coma.
- -Died 1973.
- -Donned ornate 19th century-style gowns (labcoats while on the job), vacuum-tube inspired jewelry, tied her long hair in braids and with ribbons. Wore glasses.
WWMCCS
- Name: WWMCCS-san
- aka: "Worldwide Military Command and Control System", "Wimex"
- Debut: 1962
- Died: 1996
- Height: 160 cm (5'3")
- Weight: ?? kg
- Eye Color: Brown
- Hair: Brown
- Quick Facts:
- -Somewhat neurotic and depressed.
- -Spent most of her career unappreciated, but mentally clinging to her importance.
- -GECOS' adoptive daughter.
- -Possibly a complex about the various Secretaries of Defense.
- -Had some trouble managing data and messages, but try's as hard as she can with limited resources.
- -Felt guilty about the USS Liberty incident, and the congressional censure.
- -Got along with most OS and hardware -tans. (The DoD used a variety of systems as part of WWMCCS)
- -Felt redeemed by her performance in Desert Shield and Desert Storm after her modernization.
- -Crushed by the 'rejection' of the SecDef to modernize her again after the Gulf War.
- -Disappeared from her DoD office sometime in 1996, hasn't been seen since, unknown if it was of her own free will.
- -Is presumed to be deceased.
- -Wore rings on each finger that allowed for data control and manipulation.
- -Missing an eye, wore an eyepatch, and appeared to be sleep-deprived.
- -Wore civilian business attire.
Xenix
- Name: Xenix-tan
- aka: Microsoft's Unix
- Debut: 1980
- Died: circa 1994
- Height: 164 cm (~5'4.5")
- Weight: ?? kg
- Eye Color: Hazel
- Hair: Teal-blue
- Quick Facts:
- -The only Unix allied with Microsoft, she was unconditionally devoted to the company.
- -Considered a traitor by her fellow Unix-tans, which led to her death.
- -Acted as a loyal custodian to the early Microsoft/IBM family -tans: Altair 8800, MS- and PCDOS, Windows 1.0, 2.0 and OS/2-tan.
- -Had a cheerless, austere and perfectionist personality, yet was surprisingly gentle with her charges.
- -A skillful melee fighter, she was employed as an assassin (her choice weapon being a wire garrote).
- -Retired from Microsoft and never got to see the family she loved so much grow in power and influence.
- -Felt it was her duty to fight in the Unix Wars, even at the cost of raising her daughter, SCO Unix.
- -Was sent to fight in the front lines of the war, where she was killed in action.
- -Missed by few and largely forgotten.
- -Had shoulder-length blue hair, hazel eyes, during her time at Microsoft wore a maid-like uniform and bonnet.