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The Guy Responsible For Ctrl-Alt-Del

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the three-finger-salute dept.

Gannett News is running a story 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.

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  1. Re:Er, that's a bit much.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    I would like to point out that your joke was blown for two simultaneous, yet unrelated, reasons:
    1. Presumably, the partial word at the end of your sentence is supposed to be "now". The spelling error doesn't prevent understanding the joke, but causes the reader to pause for a moment, which ruins the delivery. D-
    2. Including the ellipsis, followed by the manual signature "-sam" at the end shatters the illusion that your connection was broken by a reboot. In the event of a real disconnect, of course, the comment would never have been posted, but that's a suspension of disbelief that myself and other Slashdot readers are prepared to accept. The signature, though, is just too much. F
    Thanks for trying, and better luck next time.