This is somewhat similar to Plan 9 approach. Nowadays mainly hard drives. With NWFS scheme, backuping is not necessary. Tasks are automatically performed in the server, which is most capable to do that. Mainly job queues and system administrative tasks are spreaded to local network.
Server provides different kind of services to be used by terminals or other servers.
In the lowest level, terminal software contains graphic, keyboard and mouse drivers. After that, the next level contains virtualization i.e. multiplexing of that hardware. User Interface One of the most important thing is graphic library. I don't know URL yet. I dont exactly know, what is the goal of this project.