10-10-14 15:24 Roger Nelson wrote to Daryl Stout about Windows shutdown   
      
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    RN> On Mon May-21-1990 15:42, Daryl Stout (1:19/33) wrote to ROGER   
    RN> NELSON:   
      
    DS> Roger...   
      
    RN>Didn't Bill Gates once say that was his biggest mistake?   
      
    DS>   He did say that "640K of RAM ought to be enough for anybody".   
      
    DS>   Yeah, right.    
      
   Howdy! Roger,   
      
   Not too long ago I saw a article that said Bill Gates denied saying   
   those words.   
      
    RN> Yes, but I read somewhere last year in a tech article that he   
    RN> admitted his biggest mistake was Ctrl-Alt-Del.  The article   
    RN> didn't expand on what he meant, so I can only conclude that no   
    RN> one was swift enough to ask the question.  I'll do some further   
    RN> digging after I'm well into Windows 10, which has done some   
    RN> strange things here.  (-:   
      
   I took a look at the control+alt+delete page on Wikepedia and David   
   Bradley at IBM was given credit for changing 'soft reboot' from   
   ctrl+alt+esc to ctrl+alt+delete because he found it too easy to   
   accidently hit those keys on the original IBM PC Keyboard and cause   
   a reboot to happen.   
      
   The article says the reference to Bill Gates is starting up Windows NT.   
      
   My two cents.   
      
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