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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] [reminder] pointer to Plan 9 FAQ
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Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 18:48:57 -0400
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On Sun Sep 16 17:32:39 EDT 2001, greon@best.com wrote:
>   Subject: What resources does it need?
>
>           As might be expected, the answer depends on what you want to
>           do. The kernel, the window system, and the basic applications
>           will run comfortably on a PC with 8MB of memory.
>
>           On the other hand, the system can grow. The installation at
>           Bell Laboratories includes multiprocessor SGI Challenge and
>           Pentium machines as CPU servers, and a 350GB Sony WORM disk
>           jukebox for the file server.
>
> Is it still true that if you cannot afford to lose your data, you want to
> store it on the real fileserver rather than on kfs?
>
> If so, then home users who cannot afford to lose their data will need at
> least 2 PCs to run Plan 9, and that fact should be noted in the faq.

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Are you saying that other systems
have ways to prevent you from losing your data without copying it somewhere
else?

Home users who cannot afford to lose their data, irrespective of the O/S
involved, will have a copy of that data at some other location, or they will
eventually lose it.