QNX

QNX-tan
File:Qnxtanavatar.gif
Character Information
Common Names	QNX-tan
Other Names	n/a
Appearance
Design
Creator	Aurora Borealis
First Appearance	Sep 2006
Technical Information
System Personified	QNX and QNX Neutrino
Developer(s)	QNX Software Systems
Debut	1982 (QNX), 2001 (Neutrino)
Latest release	6.3.2 (Sep 28 2006)
Comments on the character.

QNX is a modern, complete UNIX-based OS that can fit on a floppy disk but is more commonly an embedded OS used in automobiles, industrial applications and medical electronics.

QNX-tan is represented as cyan-haired girl with her hair partly in an updo with gold hairclips, including two in the form of a QNX and a QNX Neutrino logo and wears glasses, a lab coat, grey shirt, blue tie and blue skirt. She is very intelligent, helpful and eccentric to others and leads a busy life; being a medic, auto-mechanic and self-proclaimed mad scientist. She is friendly to others but is especially interested in the diminutive OS-tans and often shrinks herself down to their size, reflecting that QNX is a very small OS. QNX-tan has some other eccentric habits, including counting only in even numbers as QNX is up to version 6 but there is no QNX 3 or 5.

She is friends with OS/2-tan and volunteers to help her and OS/2-tan's other friends with their objectives. Other friends include Slackware-tan and QDOS-tan who are fellow mechanics. QNX-tan is also in a three-way rivalry with Windows CE-tan and OS-9-tan but her rivalry with OS-9-tan runs deeper because of some similarities- both are of similar age, both are UNIX-based and are obscure competitors in the embedded OS market. But unlike OS-9-tan, she does not mind being obscure and is just glad that she can be useful to many.