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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    If I hear one more “ally” using AFABs and AMABs as nouns I’m literally going to jump out of a building. JUST CALL ME A SLUR, PLEASE IM BEGGING YOU TO GIVE ME YOUR BEST SLUR THATS ALL I WANT JUST STOP USING AFAB AS A NOUN THATS ALL I ASK.

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    The fact that I’ve had an account on this website for approx. 7 months is baffling to me. I remember having too much anxiety to even create an account on here. I remember thinking I was cis. It feels so long ago, yet so recent, at the same time.

    Here’s another appreciation post for you all. I genuinely have no idea where I would be or what I would think without you all. I love my trans comrades :trans-heart:

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    Attention queers,

    I’ve been wanting to post something, but I’ve been worried about backlash, so I’ve waited until the last day of the mega.

    It has come to my attention that many of the posters here have notable patterns of behavior that need to be discussed. Said posters have been on my radar for some time, and it can’t go unsaid anymore.

    These posters have shown, time and again, that they are great, and cool, and gay. I would like to hug them.

    I’ve said what I’ve needed to say.

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    Me and my BF had a more serious talk about the future yesterday and I’m really excited. We are working towards moving in with each other and both want to have kids someday!!

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    “So, kid, it looks like you have Vyvanse for your ADHD. Have you been taking it at home?”

    “Oh no, my mom says I don’t need medication for my adhd or autism.”

    Well, yes, we don’t medicate autism its just another way of being but your mom - who isn’t here and dropped you off alone at emerg in severe DKA at from what I can tell was deaths door - your mom has certainly been FILLING your Vyvanse on time…

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    god im too high been working long shifts don’t know what’s going on

    seems scary. nobody has to explain it to me im going to passively logout for a bit

    top-use-words everyone play nice

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    Started HRT yesterday and all I feel is anxiety

    When do I get to the revived emotional spectrum and sense that something broken has been fixed

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    Tears of joy are wild, had some yesterday after a lot of realizations and how effortless they poured out felt nice. I’m used to crying being an effort thing that makes me feel better but exhausted but yesterday they just flowed. One day I might run out of the sad ones but the joyful ones I think I’ll never will.