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

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From: PJ
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 16:47

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>>}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).

    Very true.  

    CTRL-ALT-DEL works on Win 3.1 and Win 3.11 too, except in Win 3.1 you can
terminate any application, responding or not.  Win 3.11 only lets you quit if the
application is not responding.

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