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Last reboot for one of the original PC engineers
David Bradley, one of the 'dirty dozen' engineers who created the original IBM PC at Boca Raton, Florida, is to retire this week after 29 years with the company. David's claim to fame is that he devised the most famous - and probably most used - three key combination in computer history: Ctrl-Alt-Del.
[blockquote]"I may have invented control-alt-delete, but Bill Gates made it really famous," he told a gathering at the twentieth anniversary of the PC.
This comment brought boundless laughter from the PC loving crowd. Bill Gates did not even crack a smile.. [/blockquote]
Gates probably hates the fact he couldn't trademark it and release a "Ctrl-Alt-Del XP™" edition with 6 service packs a year ...
[link=http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/35226.html]The Register[/link]
[blockquote]"I may have invented control-alt-delete, but Bill Gates made it really famous," he told a gathering at the twentieth anniversary of the PC.
This comment brought boundless laughter from the PC loving crowd. Bill Gates did not even crack a smile.. [/blockquote]
Gates probably hates the fact he couldn't trademark it and release a "Ctrl-Alt-Del XP™" edition with 6 service packs a year ...
[link=http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/35226.html]The Register[/link]
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Yes, but he did copyright the code that pulls up the task manager in Windows with it these days. Specific use can be copyrighted.
John.