NT-tan
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| Also Known As: | NT-san, Windows New Technology |
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| Drawn By: | Canon artists, OSC artists |
| OS Personified: | Windows NT 1.0 |
| OS Developer: | Microsoft |
| First Released: | 27 July 1993 |
| Latest Stable Release: | v. 4.0 29 July 1996 |
There are two mainstream personifications of Windows NT. The first NT-tan is depicted as a young woman (though her age range varies from child to adult depending on the artist) with purple hair (ranging from lilac to very dark) and blue eyes. Sometimes she is also portrayed as the mother of 2K-tan, Inu-T, and, less commonly, other NT releases.
Although usually seen as loving, sweet and motherly, a few artists' depictions show NT-tan as a bold...and sometimes crazed...warrior, shown with a bladed weapon. One such depiction shows her alongside a similarly-armed Windows 95-tan.
The second is [InuT-tan|Inu-T], a young, blue haired dog-girl who wears a blue dress, and socks and gloves shaped like paws. Whether she was originally meant as an alternative design to the previously mentioned NT-tan is unknown, but now Inu-T is commonly recognized as representing Windows NT 4.0 Workstation (a later NT-based operating system preceding Windows 2000).
Yet another NT-tan, Windows NT SP6, was designed by the dōjinshi group Deja vu, but it was considered a bootleg design by Futaba society and not an official OS-Tan.
See also: