A terminal emulator allows you work at the command line and to access a remote computer.

It will be very common for you to be sitting in front of one computer and wish to use the resources on another computer. One way to do this is to use a terminal emulator.

• On linux there are a number of terminal emulators
  • xterm
  • terminal
• On windows our choice is putty
  • But see the Wikipedia Page for more options.