>The ability to do distributed processing is an idea whose time is near-arriving as the bandwidth available to most computer users increases. The UNOS is a plan to take advantage of that bandwidth by smashing the myth of centralized control.

Personnaly, Zane, I like the idea. I mentioned the Transputer as I had a bit of experience with them in the mid '80s. Limiting factors at the time (for the application) were link distance and memory space, both easily solved today. I'll be watching ;-)