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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  • yewler [she/her]
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    11 days ago

    All I can think about right now is estrogen and how much I want it in me. I was supposed to be on my way to getting scheduled for an HRT consultation, which they said would probably be in January, but it's been several weeks and I haven't heard anything from them. I don't even have an appointment scheduled.

    Now with recent events considered, I'm questioning whether or not I should just do DIY. The issue is I'm scared of messing something up and much prefer having a doctor help me out.

    I want the emotional range so bad

    • 0x2640 [pup/pup's, she/her]M
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      11 days ago

      The issue is I'm scared of messing something up and much prefer having a doctor help me out.

      this assumes the doctor won't mess up x3 doctors have a very long and storied history of being complete morons when it comes to trans healthcare

    • JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them]
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      11 days ago

      Who are you scheduling with? I guess it depends on the location, but I was able to get a consult with Planned Parenthood in <2 weeks.

    • naom3 [she/her]
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      11 days ago

      It might be a good idea to call them and make sure you’re on their wait list or whatever. They’re probably just waiting to call you when they have a spot open but it can’t hurt to check. Also, diy isn’t as scary as it seems; it’s pretty straightforward