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Ctrl-Alt-Del Inventor To Retire From IBM

Posted by simoniker on from the resetting-into-his-dotage dept.

wherley writes "AP reports that IBM'er David Bradley, who came up with the (in)famous Ctrl-Alt-Delete key combination, is retiring. The article mentions: 'At a 20-year celebration for the IBM PC, Bradley was on a panel with Microsoft founder Bill Gates and other tech icons. The discussion turned to the keys. 'I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous,' Bradley said. Gates didn't laugh. The key combination also is used when software, such as Microsoft's Windows operating system, fails'." We featured a story on Bradley a few months back.

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  1. Salute! by Bombcar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Creator of the Three-Finger-Salute, we salute thee!

    (Anyone else get bit by the Linux will reboot with CRTL-ALT-DEL, but Win NT 4-XP will ask for Logon? I've rebooted machines on KVM switches by accident many a time, especially if I can't remap the salute like I usually do!)

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  2. State of computing by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 4, Insightful
    "Bradley was on a panel with Microsoft founder Bill Gates and other tech icons. The discussion turned to the keys. 'I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous,' Bradley said. Gates didn't laugh."

    And thus sums up the state of computing today.

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  3. Re:NT used it for logging on. by addaon · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is not a hardware signal. It is a software interrupt, an exception.

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