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Posted in computer hacks Tagged ctrl-alt-delete, ibm, pc, reboot Post navigationĮTH0 Autumn 2021: Tiny Camp Manages COVID Precautions Indoors 13 Comments The original implementation used CTRL-ALT-ESC, but was later changed so that one frustrated keyboard mash couldn’t accidentally reboot the system. He decided to throw in a shortcut that allowed the software to reboot without power cycling the hardware. We remember the old days of slow hardware and can understand his frustration at the lost time.

He came up with the idea after growing weary of waiting for the Power-On Self Test (POST) routine to finish during each reboot of his software testing regiment. You can even hear his own recount of the story in the video after the break. He was one of the original designers of the IBM Personal Computer. You may not have ever thought about it, but the far-too-often-used keyboard combination of Control + Alt + Delete had to have been brought into existence by some random coder at some point in technological history.