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**-Wears a beige dress shirt with green frills, matching shoes, pants and white tights.
**-Wears a beige dress shirt with green frills, matching shoes, pants and white tights.
**-Closest friends with Apple ///, Barbie Linux and Plus/4.
**-Closest friends with Apple ///, Barbie Linux and Plus/4.
===DTSS===
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*'''Name:'''DTSS-tan
*'''aka:''' "Dartmouth Timesharing System"
*'''Debut:''' 1963
*'''Height:''' 165 cm (5'5")
*'''Weight:''' ??kg
*'''Eye Color:''' Teal
*'''Hair:''' Blonde+white
*'''Quick Facts:'''
**-A teacher who specialized in human/OS-tan communication.
**-Inventor of the BASIC language.
**-Feels affection toward the microcomputer-tans who so widely implemented her language, especially Altair 8800-tan.
**-Friendly toward the other timesharing OS-tans of the day and region, like CTSS and Multics.
**-Dislikes squirrels.
**-Has been known to spontaneously build up and discharge electricity.
**-Is mute; in her prime, she kept an assistant as her "translator".
**-An outdoorswoman.
**-Dresses in eclectic clothing, typically of Cossack style, and carries a wooden walking stick.
===MITS Altair 8800===
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*'''Name:''' MITS Altair 8800-tan
*'''aka:''' "Altair"
*'''Debut:''' Jan 1975
*'''Height:''' 137 cm (4'6")
*'''Weight:''' ??kg
*'''Eye Color:''' Red
*'''Hair:''' White
*'''Quick Facts:'''
**-Credited for starting the personal computer revolution. (first commercially successful personal computer)
**-Overconfident in her youth, but still prone to exaggerating things. (had hugely exaggerated hype from its developers)
**-Intelligent but was self-destructive, withdrawn and melancholy. Her attitude has improved a lot since joining the BR though.
**-Hobbies include working on model rockets and antique calculators.
**-Was arch-rivals with IMSAI 8080, who she wanted to knock out of the competition.
**-Ended up causing her own near-demise and lost against IMSAI in terms of popularity.
**-Was friends with Apple I and Xenix.
**-Was the benefactress and an honorary member of the Microsoft-IBM family, but had to leave in 1981.
**-Spent over 20 years as a wanderer in various hardships and obscurity.
**-Joined the Binteeji Renmei in recent years, and reconciled with IMSAI 8080.
**-Is much happier now that she has retired, making new friends, and feeling like she can redeem herself.
**-Wears a long blue+silver gown with a white bow and red pearls around the collar.
===Multics===
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*'''Name:''' Multics
*'''aka:''' "Multiplexed Information and Computing Service"
*'''Debut:''' 1969, but was born in 1965
*'''Height:''' 176 cm (~5'9.5")
*'''Weight:''' ??kg
*'''Eye Color:''' Blue
*'''Hair:''' Dark Purple
*'''Quick Facts:'''
**-Born out of the ambitious Project MAC at MIT, Multics is the adoptive child of CTSS-tan.
**-Was sickly and weak throughout much of her youth, but became better as she matured.
**-Led a fairly tragic life, filled with numerous near-death experiences, disownments and abandonment.
**-Felt her glory was stolen by her 'illegitimate child' Unix.
**-Has a vastly complex personality: friends describe her as personable and warm, while enemies report her to be mercilessly calculating.
**-Had amazing magical powers and fighting skills that belied her prim, elegant appearance.
**-In her prime she wore complex, cumbersome Rococo-style gowns and jewelry, mixed in with more ancient-looking elements.
**-Has white and black splotched wings, although the left one is deformed from a break.
**-Fluent in several languages, including Latin and French.
**-Died in 2000, but has since been resurrected.
**-Currently devoid of any substantial magical powers and her former territory and possessions, but is actually happier because of it.
==Linux/Unix Consortium==
===UNIX===
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*'''Name:'''Bell Labs Unix
*'''aka:''' "UNIX", "Unix-sama", "UNICS"
*'''Debut:''' 1969
*'''Height:''' 153 cm (5'0")
*'''Weight:''' ??kg
*'''Eye Color:''' Blue
*'''Hair:''' Dark Purple
*'''Quick Facts:'''
**-Created at Bell Labs, Unix is the 'biological daughter' of Multics, but her caregiver and teacher was GECOS.
**-Practised what many consider an early version of open sorcery.
**-Initiated a ruthless takeover of the mainframe and minicomputer (and later workstation) markets.
**-The ultimate ancestor of all Unices --genetically, in the case of true Unices; conceptually, for Unix-likes--.
**-The co-leader of the Linux/Unix Consortium, and is very concerned over nominating an heir to her dynasty.
**-Considered difficult, manipulative, even monstrous by some, Unix does have an agreeable side which only her friends and sympathizers are aware of.
**-Wears plain, conservative and monotone clothing, boots and horn-rimmed glasses and carries an aluminum staff.
**-Physically ageless, she's appeared to be in the mid-teens for nearly 40 years.
**-Has owl ears.
**-Has ridden a wheelchair since the early 1990s. (near the end of the Unix Wars)
===GNU/Linux===
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*'''Name:''' Linux-tan
*'''aka:''' "GNU/Linux"
*'''Debut:''' circa 1991
*'''Height:''' 168 cm (5'6")
*'''Weight:''' ??kg
*'''Eye Color:''' Purple
*'''Hair:''' Purple
*'''Quick Facts:'''
**-The most successful Open Sourcer and Unix-like.
**-Born in Finland in 1991, was turned over to Minix-sensei for tutoring at a young age.
**-Effectively homeless, she traveled extensively throughout her youth; an experience that shaped her personality and worldview.
**-Avoided the Unix Wars during her youth, allowing her to develop free of the conflict's damaging influences.
**-Was powerless until her involvement with the GNU project, where she learned most of her sorcery and strategic skills.
**-Her source code was made freely available, allowing her better health and many children to be created from her genes.
**-An alliance with Apache-tan boosted her influence and made her a viable threat to the Unix dynasty.
**-Initially considered harmless, her increasing power, following and growing family made her the target of suspicion and attack by mainstream Unixes.
**-Since the mid 1990s has worked with Unix-sama to secure the mutual success and survival of their families.
**-While best friends with Unix-sama, her relationship with most of the Unix-tans continues to be uneasy at best.
**-Considered a possible heir to the Unix throne.
**-Pragmatic, optimistic and idealistic, but perhaps a bit too blunt and verbose.
**-Originally wielded a spear and wore a helmet, now carries a halberd and uses advanced cyber-armour.
**-Prefers hand-to-hand combat in battle, instead using her sorcery in more constructive pursuits.
**-Physically an older teen, athletic with long hime-cut hair. Wears white tights, a short skirt, a Compiz-style cape, navy blue jacket with gold accents and similarly colored boots.


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==Wanderer Class==
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