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Where is the Any Key?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-always-wondered dept.

ricembr noted that compaq has finally provided a FAQ to the world to ask that long standing question where is the any key? Pray that this was added to the FAQ as a joke, and not in response to legitimate need ;)

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  1. It is a coding bug by tgibney · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have always considered "Press any key to continue" a bug for two reasons.
    1) not any key will work (i.e Shift, Control etc.)
    2) there is much easier answer.

    The proper message is "Press a key to continue" because the worst they will do is press "a"