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Bill made it famous with his crashy software that made knowing it needed... These days of windows 8 I still have to use it regularly because of freezing programs and OS issues.
Bill made it famous with his crashy software that made knowing it needed... These days of windows 8 I still have to use it regularly because of freezing programs and OS issues.
OS issues such as?
Or crashes related to Adobe products, or Apple products... I know it is mainly not windows fault, but there are some OSes that are more resilient to stupid programs.
What? I've programmed the PC since 1982 or so. Everyone knew about C-A-D.
Hmm, it's a very long time ago that I pressed that key combination. I tried it out, and apparently it is wired to the Logout function of KDE...
Hmm, it's a very long time ago that I pressed that key combination. I tried it out, and apparently it is wired to the Logout function of KDE...
Yeah- it was a pretty standard thing in Desktop Managers for a while for to be logout (or return to DM, depending on what you're using). I think GDM 3.0+ finally threw it out, but you'll still see it in KDM, LightDM, and Slim.
On a side note, ctr+alt+backspace used to kill Xorg (still can if you enabled it - but these days that shortcut key is disabled by default)
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It's been famous for probably longer than you've been paying attention, then. Windows stability has made huge strides over the past 20ish years.
I know, I've been using it for more than 2 decades :P And I always had the feeling that the amount of crashes due to actual OS bugs is way lower than what the common belief seems to be. Way over 90% of problems I witnessed myself was duewas dues to faulty software, drivers or hardware. And as you say it just got better with most releases which is (just guessing) partly due to less OS bugs and partly due to the OS tak…
I've always wondered whether the creator of Ctrl-Alt-Del was aware that the MIT Lisp Machines were rebooted with Ctrl-Meta-Ctrl-Meta-Rubout, or if this is just a case of convergent reinvention. Does anyone know?
“I have to share the credit,” Bradley joked. “I may have
invented it, but I think Bill made it famous.”
And yet, few of these consumers were aware of Bradley’s shortcut quietly lingering in their machines. It wasn’t until the early 1990s, when Microsoft’s Windows took off, that the shortcut came to prominence. In an indirect sense it came to prominence in the 1980s, but via Apple. Apple borrowed the CTRL + ALT + DEL soft-reset idea by adding a CTRL + OPEN APPLE + RESET soft-reset functionality to the IIe (the 1983 upgr…
Revisionist history from someone who clearly wasn't even there.
Bill made it famous with his crashy software that made knowing it needed... These days of windows 8 I still have to use it regularly because of freezing programs and OS issues.