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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. invented the three finger salute? by jnana · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Holy shit, this guy invented the shocker?! Somehow, I thought the guy who invented that would have been younger!

  2. I Hope... by nathanh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... that he gets a three-finger salute when he leaves the building.

  3. Re:*jealous* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That would be just as smooth as a friend of mine who got a flower tattoo on his arm so he could go over to women and say "Hey baby, I brought you flowers" and then flex.

  4. Re:Bill may not laugh, by nnnneedles · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    there's a video of this around you know.

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  5. Re:my story with slash-dot by JoeError · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't know what's worse, that I visited the anti-slash website, or that I punched it into a new browser window so it wouldn't look like I clicked the link she/he/they presented me with.

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  6. Never get the blue screen. by Cutting_Crew · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    can you get this in WINXP? i never have gotten it nor have i ever locked up. on my old win98 machine i can remember getting the blue screen a few times, mainly because i was programming and i would make a boo-boo programming with linked lists. its all it how much you take care of your system. back to the subject briefly of why windows is preferred is b/c its much easier for the average user but at the same time these same users dont know how to protect their machine. even as "simple" as the windows OS might seem, the user still have to get a nice firewall with virus protection, put more than a measly 128 MB Ram on it and keep ur temp files empty and just the every-so-often maintenence to keep it in shape. Most users dont even think of this. firewall? whats that? they just check their mail, chat and browse the web for the most part. this is just begging for the blue screen.