To access a UNIX host from a PC in one of the computer rooms a connection must be made to it from either DOS or Winows, this is done by means of a program called telnet. We shall be using a UNIX host called thunder.

Thunder is the name given to the newest and fastest machine the University possesses.

It is a Digital 2100 Server Model A500MP and was purchased to provide the UNIX based compute server. The configuration is a three processor system with 384Mb of main memory and 10 Gbytes of disk. The operating system is Digital’s OSF/1 unix.

Here is an example of a telnet call:{NFS} M:>telnet thunder OR

Note: if you need to use graphics orwould like a multi-windows environment then you can use eXceed/W rather than