CTRL-ALT-DEL 
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The man who spent five minutes writing the computer code that would bail
out the world's PC users for decades is retiring Friday. David Bradley
programmed one of the most well-known key combinations around:
Ctrl-Alt-Delete. It forces obstinate computers to restart when they no
longer follow other commands.

Bradley, 55, is leaving IBM Corp. after 28 1/2 years. By 1980, Bradley
was one of 12 people working to create the IBM PC. The engineers knew they
had to design a simple way to restart the computer should it fail. Bradley
wrote the code to make it work.

"I didn't know it was going to be a cultural icon," Bradley said. "I did
a lot of other things than Ctrl-Alt-Delete, but I'm famous for that one."
His fame depends on the failures of others.

At a 20-year celebration for the IBM PC, Bradley was on a panel with
Microsoft Corp. founder Bill Gates and other tech icons. The discussion
turned to the keys. "I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous,"
Bradley said. Gates didn't laugh. The key combination also is used when
Microsoft's Windows operating system fails. Bradley will continue
teaching at North Carolina State University after retirement.