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The guy behind Ctrl-Alt-Del

Julio
09-30-2003, 01:55 PM
Saw on Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/) this piece of news: "Gannett News is running a story (http://www.gannettonline.com/e/trends/18001162.html) about David Bradley, the IBM engineer who, in 1980, coined Ctrl-Alt-Del. Interestingly, he meant for it to remain a developer-only tool, not something for end users, and certainly not to have Windows users change their passwords or logoff. He also says he chose those keys specifically as it's not a key sequence that can be struck by accident."

poertner_1274
09-30-2003, 02:03 PM
That's pretty interseting. I would have thought it was put in there for general use, and I can see how the accident part is important. It wouldn't be fun to keep going to it when banging on your keyboard :)

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09-30-2003, 02:03 PM

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09-30-2003, 05:54 PM
Very intresting :D

He picked good keys.. as I've never press crtl+alt+del by accident

Kinda hard to press all 3 keys at the same time by accident ;)

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