@willghatch in your Plan9 post I didn't see anything about the resource sharing section of 9p. I thought 9p allowed users to access hardware resources (e.g. CPUs) over the network. Thus low/middle end stations would be able to perform resource intensive tasks on demand by relying on a pool of shared infrastructure.

Post: http://willghatch.net/blog/2020/01/14/plan-9-from-the-1990s/

My first introduction to Plan9 was: http://aiju.de/b/plan9-faq and I had to know more