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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  • ashinadash [she/her]
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    15 days ago

    IM GAY kitty-cri-screm

    AND TRANS

    But...

    I've been listening to fucking BOOMER ALBUMS with magi!!! catgirl-cry

    Hi nerds and sorry I disappeared, uh who knows when I'll be back. I miss talking to people, but y'know. Please excuse the monologue...

    We have 221 vinyl albums and 219 CDs, which is about what I expected but goddamn, bitch. That's after culling like thirty each of albums I don't care for. Together, we spent the week cataloguing every record we own on Discogs (I would never touch grass) which was generally pretty enjoyable, found out I have a few neato pressings from pretty far-flung places, for KKKanada. A West German (cringe) ( germany-cool ) copy of the Jon & Vangelis Short Stories, a br*tish ukkk copy of Rubber Soul, a Spanish spain-cool Yardbirds CD comp. I also discovered, to my sickening shock, that several albums I bought for decent prices (KT Tunstall LPs, Yes blurays) have in fact rocketed up in price to several times what I paid, absolutely horrifying.

    Also we have been listening to a great deal of boomer tunes. Some cool things like Mingus Ah Um or Time Out, but also like, early albums by The Who, The Stooges, fucking, SF Sorrow. My internal tanks of Ressrve Gay Energy have almost totally depleted and I will have to engage in gaytrans slop soon; I am saying things like "I wish psychidellic rock was made exclusively by angry dykes". Basta Now was written for me, I think.

    I miss talking to people but I'm finding it kind of stresses me out, on top of being a problem for my focus/time management skills. I'm such a fucking mess person, I'm less high strung and weird but the edges of my sense of self, the firmness of my self image, start to soften and go wobbly without other people. Socialising, talking, "You" is also the reflection of yourself in other people, what they see of you. I am without reflections to ponder and my brain is very very weird at this minute.

    I miss you and love you, trans mega and the silly little gender people in it. I will try to be better and return. catgirl-peace

    • ashinadash [she/her]
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      15 days ago

      NO FUCKIN' WAY, CAT EMOTES ADDED, THANK YOU TO THE HEROES WHO DO THIS catgirl-heart

    • Thallo [love/loves]
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      15 days ago

      Good to see you! Been wondering where you two have been catgirl-happy

      Take your time to decompress~

    • Josephine_Spiro [she/her]
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      15 days ago

      :meow_hug: you have been missed, as always do prioritize life over the internet, hope you do well

      • ashinadash [she/her]
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        13 days ago

        "Do prioritise life over the internet" for me == 'grumpy white boys wrote pretentious psych rock in 1968 and I f/w that" catgirl-sorry

    • rtstragedy [fae/faer, she/her]
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      15 days ago
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      I miss talking to people but I'm finding it kind of stresses me out, on top of being a problem for my focus/time management skills. I'm such a fucking mess person, I'm less high strung and weird but the edges of my sense of self, the firmness of my self image, start to soften and go wobbly without other people. Socialising, talking, "You" is also the reflection of yourself in other people, what they see of you. I am without reflections to ponder and my brain is very very weird at this minute.

      Did I write this??? Ive never been able to really put this into words but fuck, yeah being alone fucks me up bigtime, I lose myself almost immediately. For me its extremely unpleasant and I start to deteriorate immediately, not really taking care of myself or eating or exercise or sleep schedule etc.

      Edit: I have a partner and he helps, but I still feel a bit unsettled if there's a lot of time off from work (like during the holidays), even so.

      • ashinadash [she/her]
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        13 days ago

        yea All of my hatred for this. I have kept up scheduling acceptably but I need more people to talk thoughts with aaaaaaaaaa

    • khizuo [ze/zir]
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      15 days ago

      I’ve also been listening to a lot of boomer music recently. Welcome back!!

      • ashinadash [she/her]
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        13 days ago

        Thanks and also boomer music fucks but yea I found this funny book, "BASTA NOW: Women, Trans and Nonbinary in Experimental Music" so I am hoping to expand my horizons a lil...

    • naom3 [she/her]
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      14 days ago
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      I miss talking to people but I'm finding it kind of stresses me out, on top of being a problem for my focus/time management skills. I'm such a fucking mess person, I'm less high strung and weird but the edges of my sense of self, the firmness of my self image, start to soften and go wobbly without other people. Socialising, talking, "You" is also the reflection of yourself in other people, what they see of you. I am without reflections to ponder and my brain is very very weird at this minute.

      I get this. I’ve struggled with social anxiety my entire life and talking to people and being around them is difficult and draining but I start to get depressed if I go too long without talking to anyone madeline-sadeline