From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 8 5:31: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail7.nc.rr.com (fe7.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BE9F37B40B; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 05:30:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@nc.rr.com) Received: from tbird-850 ([66.57.24.166]) by mail7.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.687.68); Wed, 8 Aug 2001 07:02:04 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 07:07:56 -0400 From: Neill Robins X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.48f) Personal Reply-To: Neill Robins X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <37466058997.20010808070756@nc.rr.com> To: Greg Lehey Cc: Brett Glass , tlambert2@mindspring.com, j mckitrick , Subject: Re: How did the MSFT monopoly start? In-reply-To: <20010808153229.L78395@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010806142544.A64348@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <15214.52633.581653.632317@guru.mired.org> <3B6F98D0.A3C22CC9@mindspring.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20010807150857.0483dd20@localhost> <20010808153229.L78395@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wednesday, August 08, 2001, 2:02:30 AM, Greg Lehey wrote: >> "I may have invented it, but Microsoft made it popular." >> >> --IBM engineer David Bradley, inventor >> of the Ctrl-Alt-Delete key sequence GL> Note that the reboot sequence for CP/M was simply ^C. "Inventing" GL> Ctrl-Alt-Del was simply a matter of finding a new mapping for the GL> function. GL> Greg David Bradley teaches in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at my university now and makes it a point that everybody knows the above statement. ( http://www.ece.ncsu.edu ) -Neill freebsd@nc.rr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message