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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  • JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    25·
    18 days ago
    CW: Homophobia/Transphobia

    Independently of the federal election results, “anti-DEI” measures passed by the state legislature means that my university LGBT center is going to effectively be shuttered. The center won’t be closed entirely, but it won’t be allowed to put on its own events, so that is going to put more burden on LGBT student groups and degrade LGBT resources for the university as a whole.

  • EstraDoll [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    24·
    18 days ago

    looking at a bunch of selfies i took the other day and god dammit i really do look like my mom now, don’t I?

    I texted my mom about it and she just responded with “Congratulations!”

  • Babs [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    24·
    20 days ago

    Update on my transphobic supervisor: he spent all morning talking about how some billionaires are good people who earned their money through noble ventures, like investment banking. He tells me he is a stock broker on the side and offers to give me some tips. madeline-deadpan

    Ok but for real why is this guy working in a homeless shelter???

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    24·
    17 days ago

    BEWARE of the transfem fashion pipeline:

    1. dysphoria hoodie and hidden thigh highs

    2. basic pastel doll phase

    3. dommy goth mommy or pefectly normal futch

    4. full plate armor and soul-eating zweihänder

  • Poogona [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    23·
    18 days ago

    I’m hope I’m not breaking any rules fouling up the trans mega thread with cissitude but I have a bunch of trans and otherwise queer people in my life who all are in really bad headspace right now, and they’ve all been venting to me because I am apparently the Politics Understander for them

    Is there any boilerplate advice I should be giving them? Any insights from people a bit older than their 20s for the trans youngins who are terrified? It’s becoming a real emotional burden for me to hear how scared some of these friends are and I’d like to have something to say to them from the experts

  • ashinadash [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    22·
    19 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, removed. 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