OTOH (so to speak), a single-key REBOOT key would be all too easy to press accidentally.
Your child or cat could do it at an inconvenient time...
1 posted on
09/21/2017 1:39:29 PM PDT by
dayglored
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2 posted on
09/21/2017 1:40:00 PM PDT by
dayglored
("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
To: dayglored
Most computers I have had have reset buttons somewhere..................
3 posted on
09/21/2017 1:41:29 PM PDT by
Red Badger
(Road Rage lasts 5 minutes. Road Rash lasts 5 months!.....................)
To: dayglored
Yeah, is bill getting senile?
4 posted on
09/21/2017 1:41:52 PM PDT by
DannyTN
To: dayglored
The average user I know would have mistakenly rebooted constantly and caused all sorts of corrupted files.
6 posted on
09/21/2017 1:43:08 PM PDT by
Raycpa
To: dayglored
The billgates key, operated by middle fingers on both hands
8 posted on
09/21/2017 1:43:52 PM PDT by
bigbob
(People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
To: dayglored
Yeah! And they should add a new key for each CAPITAL letter. I get so fatigued reaching over to push th a Caps Lock key. Aargh!!
9 posted on
09/21/2017 1:43:57 PM PDT by
subterfuge
(Save the monuments!!)
To: dayglored
I always assumed the whole point of a 3-key requirement was to ensure it wasn’t done accidentally....
10 posted on
09/21/2017 1:44:14 PM PDT by
Enchante
To: dayglored
13 posted on
09/21/2017 1:46:51 PM PDT by
avenir
(I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
To: dayglored
It is so GREAT to know that everyone’s cat walks on their keyboard just as mine does!!! YES the one key would have been a HUGE mistake!!!
To: dayglored
His real mistake was letting the last usable Operating System die.
Windows XP.
And truthfully, I don’t see how it actually died - it’s been upgraded for military users afaik.
15 posted on
09/21/2017 1:48:27 PM PDT by
djf
("She wore a raspberry beret, the kind you find in a second hand store..." - Prince)
To: dayglored
Really? Is he stupid? You WANT the interrupt to be deliberate, not accidental. If it had been one button it would have had to have a freaking cover over it so you couldn’t interrupt accidentally.
16 posted on
09/21/2017 1:49:43 PM PDT by
Seruzawa
(TANSTAAFL!)
To: dayglored
Yes, I suspect that the original goal was to make it something that would be very difficult to do accidentally.
It just had the side benefit of making many future OS related operations difficult to do intentionally.
Huzzah.
17 posted on
09/21/2017 1:53:10 PM PDT by
Kommodor
(Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
To: dayglored
OTOH (so to speak), a single-key REBOOT key would be all too easy to press accidentally.
Indeed. Knowing Gates, he would have put it where the CAPS LOCK key is. It is a sad legacy of IBM/DOS that the Control Key was dislodged from its rightful place.
18 posted on
09/21/2017 1:56:19 PM PDT by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: dayglored
Yeah, the “any” key!
Plenty of one finger salutes to go around!
KYPD
19 posted on
09/21/2017 1:56:47 PM PDT by
petro45acp
(" It IS About Islam: exposing the truth about ISIS, Al Qaeda, Iran, and the caliphate" by Glenn Beck)
To: dayglored
The biggest mistake was continuing with the QWERTY keyboard. It we had gone to the Dvorak keyboard, productivitiy would have greatly improved.
21 posted on
09/21/2017 2:01:03 PM PDT by
aimhigh
(1 John 3:23)
To: dayglored
MANY people would like to give Microsoft “the one-finger salute”!!!!
23 posted on
09/21/2017 2:02:54 PM PDT by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
To: dayglored
I’d like to CTRL-ALT-DEL Bill Gates’ ignorant social ideas.
24 posted on
09/21/2017 2:09:38 PM PDT by
Windflier
(Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
To: dayglored
There was once a RESET key! It was a reboot. Easy to hit accidentally. The problem isn’t whether it’s one key or a combination - it’s that the EFFECT of hitting a key is not make clear.
25 posted on
09/21/2017 2:19:20 PM PDT by
I want the USA back
(Constantly doing things in opposition to human nature is insanity.)
To: dayglored
OTOH (so to speak), a single-key REBOOT key would be all too easy to press accidentally.
Your child or cat could do it at an inconvenient time...
= = =
Easier than “wiping”.
26 posted on
09/21/2017 2:21:02 PM PDT by
Scrambler Bob
(Brought to you from Turtle Island, otherwise known as 'So-Called North America')
To: dayglored
Back when Ctrl-Alt-Del was a real, no kidding, reboot the GD thing NOW ... it was really good for it to be a multiple key, highly unlikely combination that took both hands. It was (and is) essentially impossible to do it accidentally.
Gates can say what he wants, I side with the anonymous IBM engineer: Good Choice.
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