Re: MacOS not "port" -able....wasRe: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!

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From: Chester Karma
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 02:13

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In article <30JUL199522272139@vms1.tamu.edu> dfa3147@vms1.tamu.edu (ALEXANDER, DYLAN FLYNN) writes:
>}In Win95 CNTRL+ALT+DEL brings up a menu where you can choose
>}to terminate an application if it appears to have stopped responding.
>Ah, one of those "more intuitive than the mac" hot key combinations
>you were talking about.

The only reason Microsoft chose CTRL+ALT+DEL for the system dialog is because 
historically, IBM-PCs have used those three keys for ONE purpose, to reboot. 
Because of this, Windows applications can't trap that particular key 
combination. Because Windows apps can't trap the key combo, Win 95 uses it, 
and Win NT uses it. This has a good purpose too, so no applications can hide 
in the background and "act like the system" to steal passwords and such.  I'm 
sure every IBM-PC manufacturer is sorry beyond belief that they didn't put a 
nice little button on the side of their machines to reboot it (no wait, I'm 
wrong, that's what the reset button is for).  Rebooting on current Macs takes 
three not-quite-intuitive keys as well (Control-Command-Reset).

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Subject: Re: MacOS not "port" -able....wasRe: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!
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