CTRL-ALT-DELETE

David Bradley


He is the one who spent 1 minute and 23 seconds writing the source
code that has rescued and will cointinue to rescue PC users worldwide
for decades. This extraordinary IBM employee retired on Friday,
January 14, 2005; after a prolonged service of 29 years. His formula
forces obstinate computers to restart when they no longer follow other
commands. By 1980, Bradley was one of 12 people working on the debut.
The engineers knew they had to design a simple way to restart the
computer whenever it fails to respond to the user. Bradley wrote the
code to make it work.


Bradley says -
"I did a lot of other things than Ctrl-Alt-Delete, but I'm famous for
that one." His fame and success is achieved each time a PC user fails.
He commented on his relationship with Bill gates by saying, "I may
have invented it, but Bill gates made it famous by applying my formula
when ever any Microsoft's Windows operating system made by him
CRASHES, thus I win when ever he loses."