A/UX
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| Also known as: | Space Cadet |
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| Original Creator: | Aurora Borealis |
| First appearance: | 2007 |
| OS Personified: | A/UX |
| OS Devloper: | Apple |
| First Released: | Feb. 1988 |
| Latest Stable Release: | 3.1.1 (1995) |
A/UX is Apple's first attempt at a Unix-based OS with Mac OS GUI. It is mainly used in servers, including one still used at NASA. A/UX-tan is represented as a tall, blue-haired pig girl with pigtails that look like pig's tails and wears part of a spacesuit as well as pilots a rocketship and loves to daydream, references to two of A/UX's codenames: Pigs in Space and Space Cadet. Her red bandana and fondness of wrestling are a reference to Hulk Hogan, another codename. Her other main interests are astronomy and space travel.
Personality-wise, A/UX-tan is very tomboyish, a daydreamer and although she is intimidating at a first glance, she can be helpful and is very straightforward, reference to the Commando utility in A/UX that allows for choosing command line options with simple controls. She affectionately calls the Mac-tans her 'kids' as a term of endearment because those older than her are rather short, no taller than 4'4 [132 cm] (except for Macintosh System 5-tan who is of average height but invisible to her) and as also part of an age complex she has.
She has been a wanderer since 1995 when she got evicted from the Apple family as a cost-cutting measure during the OS wars. She is often accompanied by Newton-tan, a fellow wanderer from Apple that also got evicted during the 90's. Despite her status as a wanderer, A/UX-tan still has close ties to the family and stops by every so often.