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I've always wondered whether the creator of Ctrl-Alt-Del was aware that the MIT Lisp Machines were rebooted with Ctrl-Meta-Ctrl-Meta-Rubout, or if this is just
by ScottBurson 13y ago
I've always wondered whether the creator of Ctrl-Alt-Del was aware that the MIT Lisp Machines were rebooted with Ctrl-Meta-Ctrl-Meta-Rubout, or if this is just a case of convergent reinvention. Does anyone know?
- patmcguire 13y agoI can't verify, because I can't find old WordPerfect docs, but I remember hearing that CTRL + ALT + DEL was save for WordPerfect. The hint was that MS chose that as a monopoly-extending tactic. Might be thinking of ALT + F4, though, and this might be total nonsense.
- michaelhoffman 13y agoIf you read the article you will find that Ctrl+Alt+Del was selected by an IBM employee, not Microsoft. Alt+F4 I believe was also picked by IBM as part of the Common User Access standard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
- marshray 13y agoI vaguely recall something involving F7 leading you to the save function on WordPerfect. Like it would ask you if you wanted to save, and if you mistakenly answered 'no' all your unsaved work was lost.
- _ap 13y agoI can't say for sure, but the ending quote from the article “I have to share the credit,” Bradley joked. “I may have invented it, but I think Bill made it famous.” seems to support the theory that he reinvented it independently. I'd be interested to know who at MIT picked the key combination Ctrl-Meta-Ctrl-Meta-Rubout for the Lisp Machines.
- ScottBurson 13y agoIt was almost certainly Richard Greenblatt, who built the CONS prototype (there was only one built) and then the first CADRs.