programmers: how would you figure out a completely unknown computer? Assume that all you have is a keyboard and a screen and a command prompt, and that typed unicode characters show up on screen
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Depends on what you mean by figure out. What do you have in mind?
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I think about this every time I see a movie with an alien computer and honestly have no idea how I would proceed. Looking forward to this thread!
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Ah! Step 1: Try something familiar like `ls` or `dir`. If that doesn’t work, step 1 is `help`. Step 2 is to explore. Step 3 is experiment. Steps 2 and 3 repeat.


