'CtrlAltDelete' Inventor Restarts Career

Found on Miami Herald on Wednesday, 28 January 2004
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David Bradley spent five minutes writing the computer code that has bailed out the world's PC users for decades.

The result was one of the most well-known key combinations around: CtrlAltDelete. It forces obstinate computers to restart when they will no longer follow other commands.

"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.

I think that key-combo is the one users learn first and use mostly. I only wonder why Bill did not laugh...