Altimit OS
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Altimit OS is a fictional OS in the universe of the .hack series. Altimit is portrayed as a very stable OS, described as "Virtually immune to all viruses". As such, Altimit OS was the only OS unaffected by the Pluto's Kiss virus, which caused widespread cyber-chaos and rendered Altimit the only practically usable OS, the catalyst for the .hack universe's stories. Altimit OS also runs The World, the only surviving MMORPG. Its name is a pun on the English word ultimate.
By the year 2017, Altimit OS was replaced by Altimit Mine OS.
Altimit OS was supposedly created by Altimit Corporation, with headquarters in San Francisco, California, USA.
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[edit] The World
In the .hack universe, The World, the 'killer app' or most popular application on Altimit OS (Indeed, the only game seen on it) was released in December 2007. The World was the first online game available ever since the Pluto's Kiss incident. Millions of copies were downloaded the first month alone. By 2010, more than 20 million players joined the game.
The World began its life as a prototype called Fragment. With time, it evolved into The World. Some Altimit OS programmers quit their jobs in Altimit to join the development crew of The World. Later, the CyberConnect Corporation (CC Corp.) was founded. This company later released the game and manages content.
[edit] Known Features
Although The World (a native Altimit OS application) is a full 3D-world that immerses the gamer into the gameplay, no VR-gloves are used, just gamepads.
Altimit OS is seen to run on a variety of platforms, presumably built to run it after the Pluto's Kiss incident.
A basic Altimit OS includes a Mail reader.
As seen in .hack//Liminality, a larger IP address space is used by The World, and other Altimit OS applications, with addresses like 295.252.352.436.325 supported. IP can be assumed to have been re-written, as Altimit OS is the only OS in the .hack world.
[edit] Remarks
The idea of a single, secure and universal OS has been attempted several times in computer history. Some include Freedows, JNode or JavaOS.
Nevertheless, the underlying philosophy of Altimit OS is a mix of past, present, and (likely) future operating systems. Some GUI concepts are drawn from Open Source desktop environments, such as GNOME or KDE. GUI "eye candy" effects are very close to the Aqua engine found in Mac OS X incarnations (icon animation and resizing). The simplicity of the desktop is reminiscent of the now discontinued BeOS.
In short, Altimit OS could be what the Project .hack authors consider "the perfect OS," a computer utopia that cannot be reached with current hardware and software designs.
[edit] Altimit Corporation
| Altimit Corporation | |
|---|---|
| Type | company |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, USA |
The Altimit Corporation is credited for the development of the Altimit OS operating system in the .hack franchise. Eventually many programmers left Altimit to create the CyberConnect Corporation, which later released The World to the public. The World is the first online game since the Pluto's Kiss, developed by a German programmer called Harald Hoerwick.
For promotion of the upcoming US release of .hack//G.U. vol. 2 Reminisce, an Affinitive (which is a viral marketing company hired by companies such as BandaiNamco) site called Altimit Corp. has been re-launched. It was first opened at the end of July in 2006. [1]
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