OSPreservProject/sprite
- Total stars
- 65
- Today
- +0
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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. Read the original README →
Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 28, 2026, 20:26 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Hacker News: “A Brief Retrospective on the Sprite Network Operating System” — 24 points, 17 days ago.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
The full 7-day window is unavailable; no weekly total or comparison is calculated.
Daily measurements · UTC
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Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: September 28, 2026, 20:26 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
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What they do, why they are gaining interest, and what to check before using them.
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Numbers
- Total stars
- 65
- Today
- +0 stars on 2026-09-28 (UTC), ≈ 0 by evening
- 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.
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Hacker News discussions
- A Brief Retrospective on the Sprite Network Operating System24 points, September 11, 2026
Spotted in
- September 18, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
- September 17, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
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- September 14, 2026Spotted on Hacker News
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