> I'm really starting to love this mailing list--people actually know more > than I do! Most of what I said was more musing than anything else, but > breaking the traditional system up into smaller cell like units which are > networked to make a coherent fascinates me.
microsoft has a research operating system, singularity, that i believe may be along the lines you're thinking. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/ - erik