The Athena dialup servers (the name dates from the time when they were
accessible via modem) provide remote access to Athena for users who do
have access to an Athena workstation.  

Users can access the dialups via SSH, and can use X11 forwarding to
run X-Windows applications if they desire.  

The dialups are a shared resource and there are often many users on a
single dialup machine.  While there is no prohibition against running
computationally intensive software on the dialups, users working with
MATLAB and similar software will get much better performance using a
regular Athena workstation instead.

All the dialups are Sun machines running Solaris - there are no IS&T
maintained Linux dialups.  Users interested in a Linux dialup should
see the "Is there a Linux dialup" stock answer in this category.

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