DEMOS

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DEMOS / Демос
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Logging into a DEMOS 3.0 unix system
Type: Multitasking, multiuser
Creator: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy parts from AT&T/Western Electric & CSRG
Architecture: PDP-11, VAX Clones, 68028, XT Clones.
This Version: 3.0
Date Released: 1983?


DEMOS / Демос was a Soviet version of Unix that included portions of AT&T Unix, portions from BSD, and some parts translated into Russian, and other utilities written in Russian.

Getting it to run

Right now the easiest way is to simply download the archive from Serge Vakulenko's site. Just unzip & run. Binaries are included for Linux / Windows. You'll want some kind of terminal capable of ASCII / Cyrillic / KOI8-R.