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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Essentially, she was asking about the “long term side effects” of hrt. As someone with a weak grasp of my feelings and who has been wrong too many times in my perception of the future, I had to approach the question philosophically. I used the Marxist theory of knowledge as explained in Mao’s On Practice.
Experience is the ultimate source and test of knowledge. Experience generates rational knowledge and rational knowledge informs our perceptions and should be used when making decisions because empiricism gives one no agency. In learning about hrt I had the experience of fear and dislike of things associated with T, and a positive perception of certain “feminine” characteristics. After overthinking it I realize I am neutral on a lot of things and there is too much data to analyze regardless of my base pro and con list. But I also have the data points of other people’s experiences which are generally positive. Still I’m not the people I see online. I am unique and ever changing. I cannot know whether I want to transition medically until I have started.
Personal experience is the only thing that will be enough to be sure. Yes, I could eventually have tits and be infertile. So? I can detransition at any time in the worst case. There are many minor but notable changes E can cause way before the big stuff. Those will be valuable practice which will probably be a gold standard for the rational knowledge for knowing whether to go on with bigger changes.
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Edit: pre-autistic inspiration credited to @TerminalEncounter@hexbear.net