# OSPreservProject/sprite

> 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.

- Magnitude: 0.1 out of 10 — Quiet
- Stars: 65 total · +0 stars on 2026-09-28 (UTC), ≈ 0 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Science & research · Language: C · Created: 2015-09-29 · Last push: 2015-10-05
- GitHub: https://github.com/OSPreservProject/sprite · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/OSPreservProject/sprite

## 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

## Why it’s here

- Hacker News: “A Brief Retrospective on the Sprite Network Operating System” — 24 points, 17 days ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 14
- Issues and pull requests: 0
- Watchers: 7
- Average over the last week: 0 per day
- Usual pace: 0 per day

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-30 … 2026-10-29: None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

09-15 0.6, 09-16 0.8, 09-17 0.8, 09-18 0.4, 09-19 0.3, 09-20 0.2, 09-21 0.2, 09-22 0.2, 09-23 0.1, 09-24 0.4, 09-25 0.5, 09-26 0.1, 09-27 0.1, 09-28 0.1

## Hacker News

- A Brief Retrospective on the Sprite Network Operating System — 24 points, 13 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49664413

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