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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    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      15 days ago

      It would explain how i could go vegan so easily after i cracked

    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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      15 days ago

      lol

      It's fair, they keep it in the dairy section in the US. A lot of people think it counts as dairy

      • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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        15 days ago

        It's fair, they keep it in the dairy section in the US. A lot of people think it counts as dairy

        wtf is amerikkka? how is the country the leader of the empire? is the rest of the world just this cucked? negative

        • SuperZutsuki [they/them]
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          14 days ago

          Where are they kept in other countries? Genuinely curious. Here they're with the milk, cream, cheese, etc

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

            often in the uk they're in the same aisle as baking goods like flour and sugar, or with the bread

          • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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            14 days ago

            depends, i've seen them next to dairy, butter to be specific, sometimes they're with potatoes and other root vegetables/fruits. they're never just... mixed in though, they always have their own little nook. vegan stuff is samey, it usually has it's own little place but on the meat aisle or the dairy section. I think I remember seeing eggs right next to dry goods once thinking-about-it

    • iridaniotter [she/her]
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      14 days ago

      Eggs are dairy in the supermarket and kosher restaurant sense. Milk is obviously dairy. Soy milk is clearly non-dairy. However, so is lactose-free cows' milk when it's on a menu.

    • Azarova [they/them]
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      14 days ago

      Mr Belden says dairy are things associated with barnyard pregnancy, so by that logic, eggs are dairy.