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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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I kinda want to ask my friend out (i've accepted that her calling me very cute was probably not just platonic), but I feel bad about it.

The thing is I've usually met this friend with another friend when we've hung out. We only met 1 on 1 last weekend because both of us happened to be free while the third girl wasn't. We've even talked about a place we want to go, but if I ask her to hang out with just me, part of me feels like I would be ditching the other friend and going behind her back.
- All three of you can still hang out even if you're only dating one of those two. I mean, eventually it's gonna feel third wheel-ish but you should be okay for at least a while
  
  Yeah, and if the third girl doesn't have romantic feelings, then she'll probably think it's really cute
- i read this post and wanted to yell. freaking ask this woman out already
  
  i'll do it, don't yell at me

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