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Polit (also Polit OS, Ukrainian: ОС Політ, lit. 'Flight OS') — is a free and open-source multitasking windowing GUI shell for DOS with a Ukrainian interface. Source code of the program written in Pascal licensed under terms of GNU GPL.
Other names | Polit OS, Політ, ОС Політ |
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Original author(s) | Ivan Kozak UKR |
Developer(s) | Ivan Kozak, Andriy Trunin, Andrew Kosovich, Yury Benesh, Oleksandr Zaytsev, Sir Cyberhead |
Initial release | May 29, 1999 |
Final release | 2005.08.30
/ August 30, 2005 |
Preview release | 2005.08.30 (beta)
/ August 30, 2005 |
Written in | Pascal |
Operating system | DOS, MS-DOS, Win95, Win98, FreeDOS |
Platform | x86-16, IA-32 |
Service name | Halcyon (Blue Bird) |
Size | < 1 MB |
Available in | Ukrainian, English, Belarusian, Russian |
Type | DOS Shell, GUI |
License | GNU GPL |
Website | bespin |
On 29 May 1999, the first SLOCs of the Polit OS shell has been written by Ivan Kozak (Ukrainian: Іван Козак), a Ukrainian programmer, at the time he being a student of KPI, later a student of KNU in the field of Cybernetics.[1][2][3][4][5]
On 6 January 2001, a new developer, nicknamed 'Cyberhead', joined the Polit development.
During Sumer 2001, source has been fully rewritten from Turbo Pascal 5.5 to Borland Pascal 7.
On 15 January 2002, author of Polit has been hosted to talk about Polit OS at the «Night zone online» (Ukrainian: Зона ночі online) late night TV-show on the Novy Kanal.[6]
On 4 July 2002, CaesarAgency, one of Ukrainian domains registrators, gifted Polit with a free hosting and polit-os.org.ua
domain.[7] Polit named as "the first Ukrainian operating system" because it has Ukrainian interface mimiced to Microsoft Windows UI.
On 21 August 2002, Yury Benesh,[8] author of the StormDOS shell in Assembly,[9] ported Polit to Virtual Pascal, which resulted in a small improvements of execution speed and decreasing size of distribution files. Source code and both 16-bit and 32-bit binary builds of this port available on the official Polit OS website.
On 30 August 2005, Ivan Kozak released the last version of the Polit shell, commemorating it to the 14th Anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine. It has a new the "Blue Bird" default theme.
During all of the time of active development, there was at least 6 contributors (from Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa and Belarus), including author, who joined the Polit OS development.[6]
Polit distributed in a form of zipped folder and floppy disk IMG-file, and could be launched from DOS (MS-DOS, FreeDOS) and Windows 95/98/M on PC or run inside emulators and virtual machines (DOSBox, DOSBox-X, VirtualBox).[10][11]
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) generator, intended to help users to start creating own software for Polit (similar to file template generator in Geany IDE).{{cite book}}
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