Editing Sprite (operating system) (section)

==Discontinuation==

Sprite was not a [[microkernel]] system, and suffers the same sort of problems as other [[Unix]]es in terms of development complexity, becoming increasingly difficult to develop as more functionality was added.<ref name="retrospective">{{Cite web |url=http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Research/Projects/CS/sprite/retrospective.html |title=Sprite Retrospective |last=Ousterhout |first=John |year=1992 |publisher=University of California at Berkeley |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225073211/http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Research/Projects/CS/sprite/retrospective.html |archive-date=2015-02-25 |url-status=live |access-date=2015-10-05 |quote=...&nbsp;the Sprite kernel became harder and harder to maintain as it aged}}</ref> By the 1990s it was suffering and the small team supporting the project was simply not able to keep up with the rapid changes in Unix taking place during this time. The project was slowly shut down by 1994.