> For the ones not in the know, Mach is an OS designed after the idea of "the network is your environment, not the computer" where it should make little differe

> For the ones not in the know, Mach is an OS designed after the idea of "the network is your environment, not the computer" where it should make little difference if the resources you are accessing is on your computer or not. And "resource" here is really generic, meaning things like files, login information, printers and other periferals, CPU, whatever. For some reason (maybe related to costs and licensing), people never adopted the idea To me, the reason is obvious: what happens when someone unplugs the network cable? This is #1 in the list of distributed computing fallacies (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_computing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu...): "the network is reliable". The other fallacies on that list might also be relevant.