Not receiving a message is not an acceptable excuse. Check your e-mail account for messages at least twice a week. Electronic Mail, usually known as e-mail, is available on all mainframes at Georgia Tech. All students have a potential account on the primary Unix mainframe, Acme. A picture ID will be needed.
Prism is a collection of unix machines that operate with common resources.
It is not a machine. At MSE Cluster, the Telnet program is used to access Acme. The novice is advised to choose Pico, a simple screen oriented editor. Vi is more powerful, but requires prior knowledge of the commands and their syntax. Hit the escape key a couple of times.