OSPreservProject/sprite
The sprite operating system
About the project
Source code, documentation and research papers for the Sprite network operating system, a distributed systems research project led by John Ousterhout at Berkeley. Supports only the legacy sun4 and DECstation architectures, bootable under gxemul and qemu.
Useful for
- Boot the ds5000.bt image in gxemul to run Sprite on an emulated DECstation
- Study Sprite kernel and utility sources for distributed OS history
- Read the project's research papers on Sprite file system and networking
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 0 stars so far today, about 4 expected by the end of the day.
- The spike has held for 2 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- Hacker News: “A Brief Retrospective on the Sprite Network Operating System” — 21 points, 2 days ago.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 63
- Stars in a day
- 4
- Forks
- 14
- Issues and pull requests
- 0
- Watchers
- 7
- Language
- C
- Created
- September 29, 2015
- Last push
- October 5, 2015
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- A Brief Retrospective on the Sprite Network Operating System21 points, September 11, 2026
Spotted in
- September 14, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
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