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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  • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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    8 days ago

    there's almost 800 fanfics concerning the new Dragon Age, there's just one issue. It's all het shit doggirl-gloom 52 are femslash this is outrageous catgirl-hiss

      • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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        8 days ago

        yea but it does make finding the rare unicorns really rewarding doggirl-smart

        something like this:

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        it's life is strange angel-biblical-shh

        • Eco [she/her, he/him]
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          8 days ago

          yeah, ofc series with canon lesbians have better ratios - legend of korra and the locked tomb series being examples that i've read a lot of

          • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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            8 days ago

            Tomb Raider also has more femslash even though it's never been explicitly said that she's gay...but i mean...c'mon catgirl-sorry

            locked tomb series

            hm interesting interesting.... victim-of-communism

      • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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        7 days ago

        the dragon age fandom is filled to the brim with hetero women who love writing, about gay men fucking and hetero relationships shrug-outta-hecks i think all the Bioware fandoms are like this. It's probably because they're older fans who have stuck with Bioware for ages by now. And as we know back in the old awful days you didnt have gay romance, especially not between guys.

        this is entirely vibes based analysis do not quote me oh-shit