| Posted By:jasmin On 7/12/2004 |
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Have you ever thought of the person who invented "CTRL + ALT + DEL"
key combination? "David Bradley" -- He is the One who spent 1 minute
and 23 seconds in writing the source code that rescues the world's
PC users for decades This extraordinary IBM employee is retiring on
Friday after a prolong 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 to create the debut. The engineers knew they had to design a
simple way to restart the computer when it fails to respond 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 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 looses". IBM salutes the best IBM
Brain.
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