Re: 3-finger salute (was Re: Vulcan HD replacement)

[Jeff Tacy <slam@home.com>]

matthew p. conte wrote:
> i don't know how long ctrl-alt-del has been around on the PC, but i know
> that i was using the 'three-finger salute' term back in my GS BBS days, way
> back in '88 or '89 i guess...  anyone know how long the keystroke has been
> hardcoded into PC's, or has it always been there (even on tandy's, etc)?

Actually, I do not believe the three-finger salute is hardcoded into
PC's. Almost all operating systems recognize ctrl-alt-del as reset, but
I have noted that operating system freeze-up situations cannot be fixed
using ctrl-alt-del. There is a piece of initd code in Linux that handles
ctrl-alt-del...Of course, BIOS chips recognize the salute during bootup,
I think.
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