Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 07:07:56 -0400 From: Neill Robins <freebsd@nc.rr.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, tlambert2@mindspring.com, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How did the MSFT monopoly start? Message-ID: <37466058997.20010808070756@nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20010808153229.L78395@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010806142544.A64348@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <15214.52633.581653.632317@guru.mired.org> <3B6F98D0.A3C22CC9@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010807150857.0483dd20@localhost> <20010808153229.L78395@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Wednesday, August 08, 2001, 2:02:30 AM, Greg Lehey wrote: >> "I may have invented it, but Microsoft made it popular." >> >> --IBM engineer David Bradley, inventor >> of the Ctrl-Alt-Delete key sequence GL> Note that the reboot sequence for CP/M was simply ^C. "Inventing" GL> Ctrl-Alt-Del was simply a matter of finding a new mapping for the GL> function. GL> Greg David Bradley teaches in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at my university now and makes it a point that everybody knows the above statement. ( http://www.ece.ncsu.edu ) -Neill freebsd@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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