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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  • Dessa [she/her]
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    19 days ago

    Wish I could fully enjoy the schadenfreude, but I fear Trump will make it a priority to lit hormone access in his first 100 days

    • Thallo [love/loves]
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      19 days ago

      We'll survive in the underground, as we always do

      We take care of each other before any government will

        • Dessa [she/her]
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          18 days ago

          Doesnt FDA have some power here to fuck with drug importation laws?

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

            Given cis people use the same medications for other reasons, I'd hope they wouldn't outright block it even if they can? But its not like Republicans care if they hurt others in the process of hurting trans people...

            • Dessa [she/her]
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              18 days ago

              Estradiol is most commonly used for birth control, which they are hardly staunch defenders of. Though killing birth control would at least garner us allies in the fight.