alt-ctr-del
By kpushpe
@kpushpe (319)
India
November 1, 2006 12:48pm CST
Have you ever thought of the person who invented "CTRL + ALT + DEL" key combination? "David Bradley" -- He is the One who spent 1 minute and 23 seconds in writing the source code that rescues the world's PC users for decades.
This extraordinary IBM employee is retiring on Friday after a prolong service of 29 years. His formula forces obstinate computers to restart when they no longer follow other commands. By 1980, Bradley was one of 12 people working to create the debut. The engineers knew they had to design a simple way to restart the computer when it fails to respond the user -- Bradley wrote the code to make it work.
Bradley says. "I did a lot of other things than Ctrl-Alt-Delete, but I'm famous for that one ." His fame and success is achieved each time a PC user fails. He commented his relationship with Bill gates by saying " I may have invented it, but Bill gates made it famous by applying my formula when ever any Microsoft's Windows operating system made by him CRASHES, thus I win when ever he looses ".
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2 responses
@callarse1 (4783)
• United States
4 May 08
That is cool to know. I didn't even realize there was someone who invented the code. It is cool that Mr Bradley was genuis enough to use the code to make computers restart. I usually do that when the computer won't restart who use the restart button when it doesn't respond to that, what about you?
Pablo
@doomstay982 (239)
• United States
4 May 08
that man is a funny man and I hope enjoys his retirement.
