> I can't see it being useful to have them as virtual addresses if random reads and writes to network space take literal seconds of round trip. It's just anoth

> I can't see it being useful to have them as virtual addresses if random reads and writes to network space take literal seconds of round trip. It's just another stage of the storage hierarchy, isn't it? Registers → CPU cache → DRAM → Flash storage → spinning-rust storage → network storage → archive storage. It's not practical to cover all of those with the one abstraction (having a CPU read-byte instruction pause while a robot navigates a warehouse to find the right backup tape is a bit ridiculous), but what we have at the moment is mostly a reflection of the way our technology ecosystem has developed, rather than the best way to organise and cache information.