10-13-14 09:38 Roger Nelson wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Windows shutdown   
      
    RN> @MSGID: <543C4DBA.13446.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>   
    EV> 10-10-14 15:24 Roger Nelson wrote to Daryl Stout about Windows shutdown   
   GE Roger,   
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    EV>RN> Yes, but I read somewhere last year in a tech article that he   
    EV>RN> admitted his biggest mistake was Ctrl-Alt-Del.  The article   
    EV>RN> didn't expand on what he meant, so I can only conclude that no   
    EV>RN> one was swift enough to ask the question.  I'll do some further   
    EV>RN> digging after I'm well into Windows 10, which has done some   
    EV>RN> strange things here.  (-:   
      
    EV> I took a look at the control+alt+delete page on Wikepedia and David   
    EV> Bradley at IBM was given credit for changing 'soft reboot' from   
    EV> ctrl+alt+esc to ctrl+alt+delete because he found it too easy to   
    EV> accidently hit those keys on the original IBM PC Keyboard and cause   
    EV> a reboot to happen.   
      
    RN> That makes no sense.   
      
   Do You remember the Function Keys were on the Left of the Keyboard   
   in two vertical rows of five keys each instead of at the top where they   
   are located now-a-days.   
      
   A relative used a keyboard that had those keys on the side on his   
   DOS 1.25 box.   
      
   ... Who is General Failure & why's he reading my disk?   
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