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Sprite (operating system)

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Sprite is an experimental Unix-like distributed operating system developed at the University of California, Berkeley, by a research group led by John Ousterhout between 1984 and 1992. Its notable features include support for a single system image across computer clusters and the introduction of the log-structured file system, and the Tcl scripting language also originated within the project. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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License
MIT 2
Status
Status
Discontinued 1
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Source Wikipedia: Sprite (operating system)

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Source Wikipedia: Sprite (operating system)

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MIT License, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the license enum value this item already carries, resolved to a software license concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The license fact itself stays on the item unchanged.

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1. Wikipedia: Sprite (operating system)
  • Infobox
    working_state=Historic
  • In Field: Operating Systems, Lead sentence
    Sprite is an experimental Unix-like distributed operating system developed at the University of California, Berkeley by John Ousterhout's research group between 1984 and 1992. Its notable features include support for single system image on computer clusters an
  • Invented By: John Ousterhout, Lead sentence
    Sprite is an experimental Unix-like distributed operating system developed at the University of California, Berkeley by John Ousterhout's research group between 1984 and 1992. Its notable features include support for single system image on computer clusters an
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2. Wikidata: Sprite
  • Wikidata Q1054302, resolved via en.wikipedia pageprops (wave rule R-L)
  • Wikidata Q1054302 P275 (license)
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