They got close...look at Plan9. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs Everything on the

They got close...look at Plan9. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs Everything on the network was just a mount, file system, sound, cpu, etc.