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by fc417fc802 157 days ago
Don't we already almost (but not quite) have that? PCIe devices can talk directly to each other (still centralized AFAIK though) and from the programmers perspective everything you mentioned is mapped into a single unified address space prior to use (admittedly piecemeal via mmap for peripherals).

Technically there's nothing stopping me from mmaping an entire multi-terabyte nvme at the block level except for the part where I don't want to reimplement a filesystem from scratch in addition to needing to share it between lots of different programs.