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In article <23...@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> jo...@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes:
> .........
>support services are provided by the DEMOS Software Cooperative (named
>after the moon of Mars, not short for Demonstration, as many US
>readers appear to have inferred).
> .........

Nothing to do with the Mars's moon. I am not quite sure about the
English spelling of the moon's name, but in Russian it sounds
something like Deimos (D-eh-i-...) and is known to mean 'Horror' in
ancient Greek.

Demos in the same ancient Greek is 'people, citizens', thus
'democracy' - the power of people (citizens).

We got our name from the product, around which our team was formed -
UNIX-like systems for Soviet-made computers. Demos was the abbreviation
for the Russian "Dialogovaya Edinaya Mobil'naya Operatsionnaya Sistema"
meaning "Interactive Unified Portable Operating System".


Anyway, thank you, Doug, for the scrupulous investigation.
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