Sure, it's remembered in conjunction with the most annoying PC glitches. Gates, however, forced it into the front and center of our consciousness with the log-in requirement.Īnd because of that fame - or rather infamy - it's a key combination we laypeople still remember today. Bradley came up with the combination to hasten the reboot process, in case of things like the blue screen of death. But, it was that kind of institutionalization that " made it famous," to borrow the words of its inventor, former IBM engineer David Bradley. Unlike a Mac, which after booting up requires a user to log-in, PC's require CTRL-Alt-Delete first, an admittedly clunky step. To be clear, Gates is referring to CTRL-Alt-Delete for logging into Windows, not the command for restarting after the blue screen of death (pictured at right). "It was a mistake," he said, an admission that has tech bloggers cheering. "We could have had a single button, but the guy who did the IBM keyboard design didn't wanna give us our single button," he said in an interview for a Harvard fundraising campaign. 'David Bradley' - He is the One who spent 1 minute and 23 seconds in writing the source code that rescues the worlds PC users for decades This extraordinary IBM employee is retiring on Friday after a prolong service of 29 years. īill Gates " finally" caved to pressure and admitted that CTRL-Alt-Delete was a "mistake," which seems a little harsh for a three-key combination used by frustrated PC users for decades. Have you ever thought of the person who invented 'CTRL + ALT + DEL' key combination.
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