NT-Mama

NT-Mama (NTママン) One of the characters in the OS personification series.

Overview

Nicknames	NT-san
First Appearance	1995/11/23 (Release date of Windows 95 in Japan)
System Personified	Windows NT 3.x

NT-Mama (NTママン, NTmaman) handles the household chores of the Windows OS anthropomorphic family. Wife of the estranged Tekamasuta and mother of 2k-tan, Inu-T, XP-tan, Homeko, and XP MCE-tan. She watches over the family as a patient mother.

Her weapon is a western-style sword, usually either a rapier or a broadsword; this contrasts with 95-tan, who wields an eastern blade.

Background

Creation and Early Life

Windows NT-tan's creation came about as a result of VMS developers from DEC hired to work with Microsoft to develop a next-generation OS, with VMS' power and OS/2's portability. She was born in 1989 when development on Windows NT started, cloned from VMS-tan's code, a sample brought over to the Microsoft labs without VMS-tan's knowledge or permission. She is not a complete clone of VMS-tan though, her code was also partly spliced together with OS/2-tan's.

She was born into the Microsoft-IBM Family, but had only met MS-DOS-tan and the Windows-tans since she wasn't introduced to them until after the family's break-up. Early in life, she was trained to be a fighter, inheriting the training that was originally promised to OS/2-tan before her, and outside of her training, she spent the most time with Windows 3.1-tan until 95-tan was born.

When 95-tan was born, she and NT-tan trained and sparred together. They hardly ever met Windows 1.0-tan and 2.0-tan, who were deliberately kept away from them by the family's higher-ups.

Achieving Dominance in the Server Market

Her 1993 debut was successful. While she wasn't yet at her strongest, and not strong enough to defeat any of the Unix-tans in combat, she was able to exploit the weaknesses of their war-torn faction. Their territory was overran by her forces, and from defeating the Unix-tans, she secured a large part of the server market.

She further took over the market when she also conquered the DEC faction and defeated VMS-tan in a duel; she didn't know that VMS-tan was her mother, nor ever met her, so she didn't hold back in battle. The DEC Faction declined over the next few years, losing territory to her forces before collapse.

Appearance

Her outfit is a simple pink dress, sometimes with a long-sleeved shirt under it, and an apron over it.

Personality

Although usually seen as loving, sweet and motherly, a few artists' depictions show NT-tan as a bold, and sometimes crazed warrior, shown with a bladed weapon. One such depiction shows her alongside a similarly-armed 95-tan, they are thought to have trained together.