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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  • EstraDoll [she/her]
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    5 hours ago

    how would one best go about talking with other, non-radical trans women about this election? I know a few that I haven't spoken to since the 5th and while I'm super fucking jaded and don't give a shit, I know that other trans women I know aren't going to be taking this well. Any tips for not coming off like a flippant asshole?

    • Tomboymoder [she/her, pup/pup's]
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      5 hours ago

      I mean things are definitely going to get worse, I don't think it helps to be flippant or dismissive about that fact.
      Would a Kamala victory, in regards to trans rights, been a actual long term solution? No, things are getting worse and Democrats are too effete and spineless to meet the moment.
      But at the same time a Trump victory definitely accelerates and exasperates things.

      I don't think now is the immediate time for lecturing.