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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  • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    Will laser actually eventually get rid of all my facial hair?

    Probably not quite all of it. It’s a good idea to go through one full course of treatments and then do electrolysis to mop up the rest, if you can afford it and/or handle the pain. Electrolysis is weird, though, because they sort of do it in strips to minimize skin damage – so after your first appointment, you’re going to come out of it with just one section done. It also can take multiple passes just because of how slowly some of the hairs grow in before they’re permanently zapped.

    Meanwhile, I’m still boymoding in public and absolutely do not think I pass as femme, but I keep getting “ma’am-ed” regardless. I’m not sure how to feel about that. I’m pretty sure the local yokels have just never seen someone with long hair and a deep voice in a Slayer t-shirt before. It’s culture shock to them vivian-shrug

    Anyway, hang in there – it gets better, and everyone progresses at different rates, so don’t sweat it. You’ve got this. Care-Comrade