[inforoots] 3 Key PC Reset Sequesnces

[Peter Capek]

As I recall, the inventor of this was (Dr) Dave Bradley, then of IBM.   He
spoke about it at the time of the 25th anniversary of the
PC (or was it the 20th?) a few years ago.   I think it was during a panel
discussion at the Tech Museum in SJ.

If you really are asking about the impetus, it was that they wanted a way
(short of powering down and back up) a way to reset the state of a system
under development when it got itself tied into a knot.  But the 3-keyed
combination was, as someone else has said, a way of
making it difficult to do it by accident.   I'm sure that the video of Dave
talking about this is on the web somewhere, probably in Youtube, but I can't
find it with a quick search.

       Peter Capek

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Bill Selmeier <bills at right-net.com> wrote:

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