I'm not convinced you'd be able to replicate because it was a product of time and place. Mike Lesk, who worked at Bell (he implemented uucp, his motivation was purely to provide patch distribution according to what he told me) said one of the key experiences he took from Bell was how easy it is to occupy a vacuum and how hard it is to push aside established state.
Unix exists. X11 exists. Kuberbetes exists. Gmail exists. Recreating a small team of highly accomplished experts with motivations which are not aimed at VC ipo, who are mutually trusting, and who have a beneficent employer with nation scale infrastructure they can burn to support you, and you still have the problem there's no vacuum, you're pushing aside other stuff.
Giving birth to C and Unix in the ashes of BCPL and multics with the pdp11 as an architecture, that's a huge one time thing. Invent a time machine and it might not happen the same the second time round.
Unix exists. X11 exists. Kuberbetes exists. Gmail exists. Recreating a small team of highly accomplished experts with motivations which are not aimed at VC ipo, who are mutually trusting, and who have a beneficent employer with nation scale infrastructure they can burn to support you, and you still have the problem there's no vacuum, you're pushing aside other stuff.
Giving birth to C and Unix in the ashes of BCPL and multics with the pdp11 as an architecture, that's a huge one time thing. Invent a time machine and it might not happen the same the second time round.