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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  • Thallo [love/loves]
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    18 days ago

    Tbh I don't share my anxiety with doctors anymore because they just use it to dismiss whatever I'm feeling.

    He's worried you're being influenced? Sounds like he's trying to influence you, sis.

    Going with the flow? Yeah, because the flow on the trans river is really fucking gentle, right? Lol. Who would get roped into being trans because it seems like the easiest thing to do? Most people are overwhelmed by being trans because it's literally going against the flow of society.

    I've said it before, you need to get away from this guy.

    • BountifulEggnog [she/her]
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      18 days ago

      I don't get it at all. I've told him its terrible, that I struggle to function, and I relapsed with my self harm stuff. I don't know why he keeps bringing it up as a thing he's worried about. Definitely completely overwhelmed by it.

      I know you have, I need to. If it wasn't so entangled with my family I would have already.

      cat-trans

      • Thallo [love/loves]
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        18 days ago

        If it wasn't so entangled with my family

        I'm noticing a trend...

        • BountifulEggnog [she/her]
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          18 days ago

          I mean, yea. Kinda embarrassing. Trying to work on it when I'm doing better then... whatever has happened tonight.

          • Thallo [love/loves]
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            18 days ago

            There are bad nights cuddle

            Funny to think just like 3 weeks ago I was a mess crying on the couch, completely non functioning. A lot can happen in a little time!

            You'll be in a position to make the change eventually