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The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE

Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 23 2013 @ 05:00 AM EDT

Your assumption that CTRL-ALT-DELETE is something special is not correct, it is
just a key-press like any other. The operation system - specifically the
keyboard input routines - interprets it and decides what to do.
If the machine is really hanged you have to press reboot or power-off on the
computer to restart.

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The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 23 2013 @ 05:57 AM EDT
- The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 23 2013 @ 09:45 AM EDT
Thanks - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 25 2013 @ 03:29 AM EDT

I seem to remember a ctrl-shift-[ sequence

Authored by: jesse on Tuesday, July 23 2013 @ 06:54 AM EDT

That would cause a break signal...

And the break signal to a LSI-11 console terminal caused an immediate system
halt. From there, you could use the "console odt" to do things -
examine memory, registers, or even reboot.

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I seem to remember a ctrl-shift-[ sequence - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 23 2013 @ 08:30 AM EDT

The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE

Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, July 23 2013 @ 08:29 AM EDT

Or more to the point, BG made it necessary.

From the article:

“I have to share the credit,” Bradley joked. “I may have invented it, but I
think Bill made it famous.”

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