ITS
| Incompatible Timesharing System-tan | |
| File:ITS.png | |
| Character Information | |
|---|---|
| Common Names | ITS-tan |
| Other Names | n/a |
| Appearance | |
| Design | |
| Creator | Bella |
| First Appearance | Dec 2007 |
| Technical Information | |
| System Personified | Incompatible Timesharing System |
| Developer(s) | MIT |
| Debut | 1960's |
| Latest release | ? |
Technical details
ITS (or Incompatible Timesharing System) is an OS developed by MIT in the 1960's and is one of the first OSes of the original hacker culture. ITS is a small OS that originally ran on DEC's PDP-10, is highly optimized and has some novel and unusual security features: ITS did not have any passwords at first, had a command to allow users to purposely crash it (to diminish the fun of it) and allowed users to spy on and interfere with one another. ITS was last used in Sweden and was finally shut down in 1995 but ITS is still kept alive by hobbyists and emulators.
Character details
ITS-tan is represented as a small, thin, flat and young-looking tomboyish girl with short brown hair, goggles and yellow eyes. She wears a Wild West-era outfit, rides an old-fashioned motorcycle, is a sharpshooter and has accessories with a dragon theme to them- referencing the dragons in ITS, background programs akin to Multics' and Unix's daemons.
She is youthful, tomboyish, rebellious and has a good sense of humor. She is a younger relative to Multics-tan and the two are essentially opposites- ITS-tan is disdainful upon the rest of their family's stuffy and old-fashioned ways and was antagonistic towards her relatives. Her biggest enemies however were RSX 11-tan and VMS-tan since their hardware systems (the PDP-11 and VAX systems respectively) ushered in the PDP-10's discontinuation and her near demise.
