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

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <01bcc2b7$de237280$caa320cc@timesink>,
matthew p. conte <spam@somebody.else> wrote:

>> I like it too (obviously), but I refuse to take credit for it.  I first
>> saw it on a newsgroup, referring to a computer restart, but I can't
>> remember if it was in reference to our 3-finger (Apple-RESET) (which, by
>> the way, has finally been added to MacOS), or to the Ctrl-Alt-Delete
>> sequence on the PeeCees.

It's a hardware thing on Macs, and isn't that recent. My Quadra 840av,
introduced in '93, has it. Older boxes have the doink button, as I refer
to it, and you still use it even with new OS versions.

>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)?

Yep, the term goes back quite a ways.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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