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CTRL + ALT + DEL

 

Ever thought of the Person who invented "CTRL + ALT + DEL" key combination - "David Bradley" - He is the One who spent 1 minute and 23 seconds in writing the source code that rescues the world's PC users for decades..!

 

This extraordinary IBM employee is retiring after a prolong service of 29 years. His formula forces obstinate computers to restart when they no longer follow other commands.

 

By 1980, Bradley was one of 12 people working to create the debut. The engineers knew they had to design a simple way to restart the computer when it fails to respond the user. Bradley wrote the code to make it work.

 

Bradley says: I did a lot of other things than Ctrl+Alt+Delete, but I'm famous for that one. His fame and success is achieved each time a PC user fails.

 

He Commented His relationship with Bill Gates by saying: "I may have invented it, but Bill Gates made it famous by applying my formula whenever any Microsoft's Windows operating system made by him crashes, thus I WIN whenever he looses".

 Top Comment : sujit Kumar   | 06 13 2009 03:03:45 +0000
Thanks for the information and enlightened me to know about the discoverer of Alt+Ctrl+Del Sir David Bradley,and whenever the window crashes Billgates looses and he wins.
 
6 comments on "CTRL + ALT + DEL"
  Commented by  sujit, PGP Student, Batch of 2010, IIM Kozhikode    | 06 13 2009 03:03:45 +0000
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Thanks for the information and enlightened me to know about the discoverer of Alt+Ctrl+Del Sir David Bradley,and whenever the window crashes Billgates looses and he wins.
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Never knew this. Gr8 info, thanx 4 sharing
  Commented by  Ramkrishna Khandelwal, Team Lead, Infosys    | 03 02 2009 13:08:33 +0000
Well, thanks Mr.David Bradley for your CTRL+ALT+DEL.
We are using it regularly as Windows crashes or hangs regularly.
Its of a great help.
I think even after Ctrl+Alt+Del becoming famous, Bill Gates don't wanna let it go away.
I think he is just too loyal with Ctrl+Alt+Del...
  Commented by  Vinayarajan KV, Head/VP/GM-Sales Tech    | 01 22 2009 06:17:15 +0000
Great information thanks for sharing
  Commented by  kasturirangan.r, Consultant tekcare india pvt.ltd chennai india-600035    | 01 21 2009 14:00:10 +0000
Thanks for the information and enlightened me to know about the discoverer of Alt+Ctrl+Del Sir David Bradley,and whenever the window crashes Billgates looses and he wins.
Kasturirangan.r
  Commented by  Rohini Kaushal, Human Resousce Assistant, etech, Inc pvt ltd    | 01 21 2009 10:18:57 +0000
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 Hates off for "David Bradley".
 especiaaly for giving the credit for any other peron.
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