DEMOS (Dialogovaya Edinaya Mobilnaya Operatsionnaya Sistema: Russian: Диалоговая Единая Мобильная Операционная Система, ДЕМОС, lit. 'Interactive Unified Portable Operating System') is a Unix-like operating system developed in the Soviet Union. It is derived from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) Unix.

It's development was initiated in the Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy in Moscow in 1982, and development continued in cooperation from other institutes, and commercialized by DEMOS Co-operative which employed most key contributors to DEMOS and to its earlier alternative, MNOS (a clone of Version 6 Unix). MNOS and DEMOS version 1.x were gradually merged from 1986 until 1990, leaving the joint OS, DEMOS version 2.x, with support for different Cyrillic script character encoding (charsets) (KOI-8 and U-code, used in DEMOS 1 and MNOS, respectively).

Initially it was developed for SM-4 (a PDP-11/40 clone) and SM-1600. Later it was ported to Elektronika-1082, BESM, ES EVM, clones of VAX-11 (SM-1700), and several other platforms, including PC/XT, Elektronika-85 (a clone of DEC Professional), and several Motorola 68020-based microcomputers.

The development of DEMOS effectively ceased in 1991, when the second project of the DEMOS team, RELCOM, took priority.

An archive of the DEMOS source code can found here: https://github.com/bpr97050/DEMOS There's some interesting comments and mailing list archives in that repository as well. :)


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  • Hestia [comrade/them, she/her]M
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    20 days ago

    Estrogen has made me substantially more emotional but it seems like I bounce back from things alot quicker than in the past. I don't ruminate on things as much because my baseline emotional state is higher.

    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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      20 days ago

      For me, being on E was the emotional equivalent of having really bad eyesight and then getting glasses for the first time. Now I had emotions and I understood my emotions, I could give them names and process them.

      Before it was all just baseline okay, or anger. And that was about it. Sure I cry more now but I can also deal with my emotions rather than, like you, just having them boil in the background

      • CrookedSerpent [she/her]
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        20 days ago

        Exactly how I felt. Like there was a veil over my emotions that was lifted by HRT.

    • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@lemmy.today
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      20 days ago

      Feel pretty much the same. Barely have more negative emotions though.... The more emotional change is having a baseline happiness/contentness rather than numbness. Like, sure when watching shows where it's supposed to be sad also lead to stronger feelings, but like that's kinda the goal of those episodes, so still don't see that as a negative.