Bill Gates: Ctrl + Alt + Del - it was a mistake

There is a well-known opinion that one of the IBM engineers David Bradley , being one of the participants of the IBM PC project, came up with the key combination Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart the computer without turning off the power. In particular, Bradley was guided by the fact that it was almost impossible to accidentally press such a combination, and thus it would be unlikely to restart the computer by accident.

At the QA session at Harvard, which took place on September 21, in which Bill Gates, a presenter ( David Rubinstein , a financier and philanthropist) took part, asked the founder of Microsoft - whose idea was to use three fingers to reload, hinting at some absurdity of such an approach?

Bill Gates first went into the explanation that pressing Ctrl + Alt + Del before entering the login and password prevents other programs from getting a password besides the operating system itself, but then admitted:

Yes, we could have one button for this, but the guy who designed the keyboard for IBM did not want to give it to us, although we could use it ... It was a mistake.

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As a result, Bradley had no choice but to invent his own combination, noting: "I may have invented it, but Bill made her famous" ("I may have invented it, but it made it famous").

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