The keyboard combo that is Control - Alt - Delete may have become iconic — but according to Bill Gates it was all just a bragging mistake .
mouth to the Harvard fundraising drive , Gates acknowledge that the series of button presses was far from designed :
It was a misunderstanding … We could have had a single clit , but the guy who did the IBM keyboard design did n’t wanna give us our individual button .
Indeed , responsibility for Ctrl - Alt - Delete rest with David Bradley , an engineer who worked on the original IBM PC . It ’s an enduring legacy , too ; the release combo still works in Windows 8 to operate a personal computer or run Task Manager . Quite a farsighted history for a mistake . [ HarvardviaGeekWireviaVerge ]
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