Bill Gates: Ctrl-Alt- Delete "Was a Mistake"

The keyboard combo that is
Control-Alt-Delete may have
become iconic—but according to
Bill Gates it was all just a big
mistake.
Talking to the Harvard
fundraising campaign, Gates
admitted that the series of
button presses was far from
intentional:
"It was a mistake... We
could have had a single
button, but the guy who did
the IBM keyboard design
didn't wanna give us our
single button".
Indeed, responsibility for Ctrl-
Alt-Delete rests with David
Bradley, an engineer who
worked on the original IBM PC.
It's an enduring legacy, too; the
button combo still works in
Windows 8 to lock a PC or run
Task Manager. Quite a long
history for a mistake. [ Harvard
via GeekWire via Verge]
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