sirjofri, thank you for the reply. don’t be sorry for the long response, i greatly appreciate it. when i was told plan 9 is built on only a few principles and basic abstractions, that was spot on.

i’ve decided i’m going to make my grid at home. the only thing i haven’t figured out is networking hardware. i’m hoping if i connect all the devices with a network switch, that will work. however i’m not sure what it will take to get online. i would imagine if i gave a cpu server internet connection, i could rcpu to that server and be online. but that is probably not a very elegant way to do it. i’m just going to try it myself and see what happens (run into problems.)