Talk:Sprite (operating system)
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Unixen[edit]
Is 'Unixen' a misspelling? Don't want to change it if it means something else..
- Although "Unix" is usually pluralized as "Unices", it is common in computer jargon to pluralize words ending in X adding -en, as in "VAX" -> "vaxen". I have seem lot of people write such things as "boxen" or "linuxen". So, as far as I know, it's not a mispelling. --Pezezin 22:33, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
Subjective analysis of the reasons for discontinuation[edit]
If there are any good sources for the claim that Sprite failed because it's not a microkernel, please add them. If else I think that the part about Sprites discontinuation should be rewritten. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.63.247.218 (talk) 00:32, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
It actually states the maintainability claim in the Sprite retrospective document referenced from the project's home page (referenced elsewhere in the article), but not explicitly in contrast to microkernel-based operating systems, although one could make the claim that the "commercial versions of UNIX with massive support teams" needed such teams because of their architecture. PaulBoddie (talk) 15:13, 10 February 2012 (UTC)