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Didn't address how the "system is screwed up, restart" sequence was adopted as the "do this to initiate first login".
by ctdonath 13y ago
Didn't address how the "system is screwed up, restart" sequence was adopted as the "do this to initiate first login".
- panic 13y agoWhen we were designing NT 3.1, one of the issues that came up fairly early was the secure attention sequence - we needed to have a keystroke sequence that couldn't be intercepted by any application. So the security architect for NT (Jim Kelly) went looking for a keystroke sequence he could use. It turned out that the only keystroke combination that wasn't already being used by a shipping application was control-alt-del, because that was used to reboot the computer. And thus was born the Control-Alt-Del to log in. I've got to say that the first time that the logon dialog went into the system, I pressed it with a fair amount of trepidation - I'd been well trained that C-A-D rebooted the computer and.... - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/01/24/359850.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/01/24/359...