That sounds like distributed hardware, not software. And I get the feeling that it's probably been done somewhere before, even if we've never heard of it. Defin

That sounds like distributed hardware, not software. And I get the feeling that it's probably been done somewhere before, even if we've never heard of it. Definitely would be neat to figure out such a system! Certainly the network interface as a separate computer has been done, though. Just look at how the original ARPANET worked for that.