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Bill Gates admits Control-Alt-Delete was a mistake, blames IBM

16 pointsby chrisdinnover 11 years ago

2 comments

txutxuover 11 years ago
On Linux 0.01 (10&#x2F;30&#x2F;93 1:00:00 AM) I see the following:<p><pre><code> jne cur2 &#x2F;* check for ctrl-alt-del *&#x2F; </code></pre> During years I&#x27;ve been working on shared KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) devices, where windows sysadmins did press ctrl+alt+delete as first step, to wake up the monitor from sleep.<p>If you had bad luck and the KVM was in the wrong port... boom!<p>I did learn to disable this feature the hard way.
rbanffyover 11 years ago
&quot;the new device called the phone&quot; (Ballmer&#x27;s, but still precious)