Can anyone confirm if this is true?
> 12:22 PM Subject: Windows versus Unix
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>On Friday the 24th I was watching the NASA channel on cable TV to see how
>the experiments and Shuttle crew were doing. The men onboard needed to send
>instructions to the experiments in the cargo bay and were using a laptop to
>do it. As some of you may have heard, there was a "computer problem"
>onboard as reported by CNN. The exchange of information between the crew
>and the Johnson Space Center (JSC) went something like this:
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>Crew: Urgent Johnson, we can't get a DOS prompt.
>JSC: Press C: enter.
>Crew: Heck, we're not familiar with all this
>JSC: What screen are you looking at?
>Crew: It says 'My Computer', and, er, various other icons.
>JSC: Click on 'Start' and then shut down.
>Crew: You click the 'Start' button to shut down?
>JSC: Yeah. Isn't it obvious?
>Crew: Somebody get me an aspirin.
>JSC: Just hit the damn 'Start' button.
>Crew: We can't do that. It didn't load a mouse.
>JSC: Didn't load any mouse at all?
>Crew: Well, yeah, a PS/2 or something. But we don't have one of those
>JSC: Okay. Press Alt + Esc.
>Crew: And what does that do?
>JSC: It should help.
>Crew: Negative.
>JSC: Stand by, will replicate the problem down here.
>Crew: Roger.
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>[Long pause]
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>JSC: Okay then. Double click the MS-DOS icon.
>Crew: I don't have a mouse.
>JSC: Go to backup.
>Crew: Which is what?
>JSC: Dock with the Russians. They have a Unix Workstation you can borrow.
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