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Oh, wow, that's a fantastic idea! Well done, I will play around with it. I love the idea of exposing disparate datasets as filesystems.

You should take a look at Plan 9. Everything is a file, and service are implemented as file servers - including the windowing system (rio).

Some of the ideas are available in Plan 9 from User Space.

I've seen that, it sounded like a great idea to me when I was looking at it. Too bad Plan 9 never caught on.