History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE shortcut keys

Mental_floss Magazine published an article reviewing the history of CTRL + ALT + DELETE: Programmer David Bradley became an IBM employee in 1975, participated in the Datamaster project in 1978, and was selected Acorn project team in 1980, The Acorn Project is designed to design PCs, and the project is urgent and needs to be completed within a year. The programmer then had to manually reboot after the computer encountered a program failure, and then automatically started a series of memory tests, time-consuming. As a result, Bradley creates a shortcut key Ctrl+alt+del that resets the system without requiring a memory test. He never thought it would make him a programming hero.

The Ctrl+alt key is very close, but Del is on the other side of the keyboard, so Bradley that the shortcut key is not likely to be accidentally pressed at the same time. The project team completed the Acorn Design as scheduled, and the IBM pc started selling in 1981, and marketing experts said 241,683 units could be sold in the first five years, and executives thought the forecast was too optimistic. As a result, IBM PCs sold millions of units. Still, not many consumers know about shortcut keys Ctrl+alt+del. Ctrl+alt+del's reputation is the early 90 windows, when Windows encounters a blue screen crash, it prompts to press Ctrl+alt+del restart the computer. Bradley smile Words, is Bill Gates let Ctrl+alt+del fame.