The School's main workstation is a DECstation 5000 model 260PX with
2D graphics accelerator, a 
8-bit colour display, 296
Mbytes of main memory, and about 30 Gbytes of disk on two separate SCSI
controllers. The machine is a resonably powerful facility, ideal for
many physics problems, wordprocessing, electronic mail, and so on.
It can easily support 50 or more users simultaneously, with batch
jobs having little impact on the interactive performance provided
that the total memory usage of all jobs is less than about 200
Mbytes.
The workstation runs the operating system ULTRIX, which is Digital Equipment Corporation's version of UNIX. UNIX has a reputation for being terse and difficult to learn. Actually UNIX is not much harder to learn than MS-DOS on an IBM PC, but is much more powerful. It is well worth learning.
If you have questions about how to use the workstation system, speak with Kristien Clayton or David Jonas. If you are asked to ``RTFM'', this is a colloquial UNIX expression meaning ``Read The Fine Manual''.