Deceased OS-tan Annex Bios

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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.
    • -Wears a patchy red+orange dress with a white sash, wooden jewelry and wooden shoes.
    • -Has 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

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  • Name: BESYS-tan
  • aka: Bell Operating System
  • Debut: 1957
  • Died: unknown
  • Height: 166 cm (~5'5.5")
  • Weight: ?? kg
  • Eye Color: Blue
  • Hair: Dark blue
  • Quick Facts:
    • -Daughter of GMOS, half-sister to UMES and IBSYS.
    • -Had many jobs
    • -Loves to sing, might have been the OS for the Daisy Bell computer.
    • -Her claim is disputed with IBSYS-tan.
    • -Hard to get along with (no technical support)
    • -influenced Multics' creation, and felt resentful for being 'replaced'.
    • -Wore jewelry with bells in them, and dresses with floral accessories.

BOS/360

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  • 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

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  • 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.
    • -Spends her extensive free time tinkering with spare equipment.
    • -Has 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

CSIRAC

  • Data Pending

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).
    • -Loves rats, keeps some as pets.
    • -Supposedly the third most used workstation OS in the 1980s.
    • -Physically a young woman wearing boxy haircut/dress style.
    • -Likes 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.
    • -Feels 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.
    • -Is 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

  • Data Pending

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

  • Data Pending

EMAG III

  • Data Pending

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.
    • -Loves 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.
    • -Uses 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 have been known to next in her ridiculously complex outfits.
    • -Died from a lightning strike in 1955.
    • -Dresses 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

  • Data Pending

GMOS

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  • Name: General Motors Operating System
  • aka: GM-NAA I/0
  • Debut: 1955
  • Died: unknown
  • 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.
    • -Dresses in a mix of Elizabethan and Victorian fashions, in the GM colors.
    • -Wears 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.
    • -Has 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 -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.
    • -Wears Byzantine-style attire, believing herself above wearing a standard Navy uniform; ties 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.
    • -Is adventurous, has worked for the navy.
    • -Also does mechanical work, known to be crazy-prepared. (built-in hardware for several functions)
    • -Carries a tool box or tool belt at all times.
    • -Follows the family's traditions and philosophies (the Harvard Architecture), but also works under her own set of strange and strict rules.
    • -Her rules aren't as efficient and easily worries about the smaller details, but gets the job done.
    • -Usually wears her hair in pigtails, and wears an antiquated sailor-type uniform with poofy sleeves and pants.
    • -Wears a black+grey 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 dresses in Continental Army uniforms and wears her hair in large hair curlers.
    • -Can process great amounts of information at once, yet turning a page in a book is mentally taxing to her.

Harvard Mark IV

  • Data Pending

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 relishes public attention and being in the limelight.
    • -Doesn't let anyone forget that she knows Thomas Watson Sr. personally.
    • -Arguably more knowledgable than her cousin, Harvard Mark I.
    • -Locked in a quiet conflict with her cousin (Harvard Mark I), whom she brags 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: unknown
  • Height: 168 cm (5'6")
  • Weight: ??kg
  • Eye Color: Light blue
  • Hair: Grey
  • Quick Facts:
    • -Quiet and reserved.
    • -UMES-tan's sister, both are direct descendants of GMOS-sama.
    • -A rocket scientist.
    • -Obsessed with sorting and filing things.
    • -Likes to perform card tricks.
    • -Dresses conservatively, wears high-collared dresses.
    • -Dresses mainly in dark green and grey- the IBM 7094 colors.

Kenbak-1

  • Data Pending

Manchester Mark I

  • Data Pending

MANIAC

  • Data Pending

MISTIC

  • Data Pending

MONECS

  • Data Pending

MUSASINO-1

  • Data Pending

MTS

  • Data Pending

MSOS

  • aka: "Mass Storage Operating System"

NLS

  • Data Pending

ORACLE

  • Data Pending

Oregon State Open Shop OS

  • Data Pending

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's 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.
    • -Has 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's 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.
    • -Has dark skin, long hair, dresses in utilitarian clothing.

SARA

  • Data Pending

SILLIAC

  • Data Pending

SpringOS

  • Data Pending

SpriteOS

  • Data Pending

Thoth

  • Data Pending

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, insane, 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

  • Data Pending

UMES

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  • Name: UMES-tan
  • aka: "University of Michigan Executive System"
  • Debut: 1958
  • Died: late 1960's
  • 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.
    • -Has wavy blonde hair, wears glasses.
    • -Her dresses are blue+brown, worn with a scarf and have 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 can 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.
    • -Has 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's fluent in Elvish.
    • -Dresses in a colourful mix of 19th-century bohemian and 1960s hippie fashion.

WEIZAC

  • Data Pending

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 speaks 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.
    • -Dons ornate 19th century-style gowns (labcoats while on the job), vacuum-tube inspired jewelry, tied her long hair in braids and with ribbons. Wears 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.
    • -Has some trouble managing data and messages, but try's as hard as she can with limited resources.
    • -Feels guilty about the USS Liberty incident, and the congressional censure.
    • -Gets 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.
    • -Wears 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.
    • -Acts 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.
    • -Has a cheerless, austere 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.
    • -Has shoulder-length blue hair, hazel eyes, during her time at Microsoft wore a maid-like uniform and bonnet.
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