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The sprite operating system

3 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 2 comments · first 2026-09-11 · latest 2026-09-21

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  1. …and only web host [2] written in Nim [0], running on Sprite [1] ;-) [0] http://nim-lang.org/ [1] https://github.com/OSPreservProject/sprite/blob/master/sprit... [2] https://pomelo.shockfox.net/pub/src/httpd.nim
    comment by spijdar · 2026-09-21 · in Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 2: The Mac side
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    A Brief Retrospective on the Sprite Network Operating System
    story by EvanAnderson · 2026-09-11 · 13 comments
  3. …`/swap` directory, and inside that directory, individual segments of virtual memory would be saved: https://github.com/OSPreservProject/sprite/blob/master/src/k... Sprite overcommited memory like a modern OS, and stored segments…
    comment by spijdar · 2026-09-11 · in Stop making swap partitions—use swap files instead