Xenix
| Xenix-tan | |
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| Character Information | |
|---|---|
| Common Names | Xenix-tan |
| Other Names | Microsoft's Unix, Xenix-sama |
| Faction | deceased, formerly of the IBM-Microsoft Family, and loosely affiliated with the old Unix Family. |
| Lineage | Unix, hybrid branch (Version 7 + BSD) |
| Rival(s) | Most other Unices. |
| Appearance | |
| Height | 163 cm (5'4") |
| Hair Color | blue |
| Eye Color | amber-green |
| Weapon(s) | wire garrote |
| Design | |
| First Appearance | Apr 2007 |
| Technical Information | |
| System Personified | All Xenix releases until v. 2.3.4 |
| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
| Debut | circa 1980 |
| Latest release | v.2.3.4 (1989) |
Technical details
Xenix was a version of Unix developed by Microsoft in the 1980's. Xenix was predominantly based off of AT&T's Version 7 Unix but also incorporated elements from BSD (unlike other Version 7 Unix derivatives) and originally ran on the DEC PDP-11 but was later ported to the x86 architecture, a line of Tandy computers and the Apple Lisa. Xenix was later acquired by the SCO Group and continued development as SCO Unix.
Character details
General
Xenix-tan is represented as a stern-looking woman with shoulder-length blue hair, amber-green eyes. She wears a maid's bonnet with a dark green dress (color of the Xenix floppy disk sleeves) under a black and white blouse with a white X-shaped bow on the back.
She was the guardian of the Microsoft-IBM Family of the 1980's, was extremely loyal and very caring to the other OS-tans of the family, but was notoriously strict when it came to many other people. She could not take a joke, and was extremely inflexible when it came to rules. In particular, she did not tolerate anything being a minute late, or even early, but right on time, or else. It was because of her attitude towards most others that few people missed her after her forced retirement and death. She is survived by her daughter, SCO Unix-tan.
Abilities
She was a mediocre sorceress among a lineage of remarkable sorcerers, but excelled at melee combat; her weapon being a slender but powerful fiber wire which was primarily used for sneaky assassinations towards threatening program-tans.
History and background
During her early years, Xenix-tan became friends with MITS Altair 8800-tan and wrote a biography about her. However, she was not allowed to speak of Altair-tan to the family.
Xenix-tan was first hired to be a servant and bodyguard for the soon-to-be Microsoft-IBM Family, but quickly quickly demonstrated leadership qualities and rose very quickly up in the ranks of old Microsoft. She was around to raise PC-DOS-tan and MS-DOS-tan, and around for a while to raise Windows 1.0-tan, 2.0-tan and OS/2-tan but was retired shortly after Windows 3.1-tan (then Windows 3.0-tan) was born, and didn't get the chance to see the family she cared for grow in influence. While she did mellow out after she was forced to retire, but she was still so intent on her work to be a good caretaker to the family that when she was drafted into the Unix Wars of the early 90's, she failed to make any allies, and was derided as a traitor to the entire Unix Family.
The timing for her involvement in the war was especially bad. It happened that Windows NT-tan, who she still supported in her loyalty to the Windows Family, was being prepared to conquer the server market from the Unices at that time.
OS-tan deaths in war are very rare, but rival Unices temporarily united in their hate towards Xenix-tan, and conspired to sent her to the front line without proper support, stripped of her status to die as a commoner.
Her daughter, SCO Unix, didn't get to help her fight in the war, and could only watch as she died on the battlefield as a commoner who didn't get a proper funeral.