What is "demos"

Etymology 1 n. (plural of demo English) Etymology 2

n. 1 (context political science English) The commoner populace of a state, the people. 2 (context modern Greece Serbo-Croatian) municipality, an administrative area covering a city or several villages together 3 (context historical Ancient Greece Serbo-Croatian) the ordinary citizens of an ancient Greek city-state 4 (context historical Ancient Greece Serbo-Croatian) the term for an ancient subdivision of Attica

DEMOS (meaning "Dialogovaya Edinaya Mobilnaya Operatsionnaya Sistema" (Диалоговая Единая Мобильная Операционная Система, ДЕМОС), or "Interactive Unified Portable Operating System") was a Unix-like operating system developed in the Soviet Union. It was derived from BSD.

Its 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 Unix Version 6). 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 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). Later it was ported to Elektronika-1082, BESM, ES EVM, clones of VAX-11, and a number of other platforms, including PC/XT, Elektronika-85 (a clone of DEC Professional), and a number of Motorola 68020-based microcomputers.

The development of DEMOS effectively ceased in 1991, when the second project of the DEMOS team, RELCOM, took priority.

The originally suggested name was УНАС (UNAS), which was a volapukish word play on Unix; "у них" ("u nih") in Russian means "at theirs" or also "they have it", "у нас" ("u nas") means "at ours" or also "we have it". More serious management dismissed this idea in favor of a traditional " alphabet soup".

Demos is a think tank based in the United Kingdom with a cross-party political viewpoint. It was founded in 1993 and specialises in social policy, developing evidence-based solutions in a range of areas - from education and skills to health and housing.

Demos also houses the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, which leads the study of how the rise of the digital world affects politics, policy and decision-making.

The current Chief Executive is Claudia Wood, who joined the think tank in 2009 and previously worked for Tony Blair’s strategy unit.

Demos publishes a quarterly journal, titled Demos Quarterly, which features articles from politicians, academics and Demos researchers.

The organisation is an independently registered educational charity.

Demos is a United States-based research and policy center founded in 2000 that presents a liberal

• viewpoint on economic issues. Their focus includes election reform, economic security, sustainability and alternative measures of economic progress.

Demos is a compilation of demos and non-album tracks by Imperial Drag, released on May 2, 2005. Five additional tracks were subsequently made available exclusively through the Not Lame Recordings website.

The album was distributed through the (now defunct) Weedshare music distribution service.

Demos is the seventeenth album by Crosby, Stills & Nash, released in 2009 on Rhino Records. It peaked at #104 on the Billboard 200.

Demos is the first full-length album by Alkaline Trio singer/guitarist Matt Skiba. It is composed of demos that Skiba has recorded into his computer. Skiba released the project on Asian Man Records, which was Alkaline Trio's label for their first two full-length albums, Goddamnit and Maybe I'll Catch Fire.

Demos is a 1921 silent British drama film directed by Denison Clift. The film is considered to be lost.

Demos: A Story of English Socialism is a novel by the English author George Gissing. It was written between late 1885 and March 1886 and first published in April 1886 by Smith, Elder & Co.

Demos is a compilation album by Edith Frost, issued as a free download online on May 20, 2004 through Comfort Stand Recordings. It contains demos of songs that appeared on her first three albums.

DEMOS (Demos) was the first internet service provider in the USSR.

DEMOS / ДЕМОС (acronym of Democratic Alliance (Demokratski savez) is a centre-right political party in Montenegro, founded in 2015 when the leader of opposition Democratic Front Miodrag Lekić split from the alliance due to disagreements with its constituent parties, and formed the new political subject. DEMOS currently has four representatives in the Parliament of Montenegro. Besides Lekić, the MPs are Goran Danilović, former vice-president of New Serb Democracy, Zoran Miljanić, former representative of Positive Montenegro and Radovan Asanović, former representative of Democratic Party of Unity.