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echo: os2prog
to: Peter Fitzsimmons
from: Daniel Doran
date: 1995-11-09 00:43:00
subject: CTL-ALT-DEL

PETER FITZSIMMONS wrote something vaguely related to CTL-ALT-DEL


PF>  I want to see CAD remain as softboot,  since this is the way the
PF> IBM PC BIOS first implemented it. I am not saying it should always be
PF> this way, clearly servers and kiosks might like CAD to be a NOP;  I am
PF>  saying I don't want this shoved down my throat like it is with NT.

Sounds like something IBM might add to the keyboard settings notebook:
a setting for what to do with C-A-D, with options including Kill App,
Ignore, Soft Boot. (or something like that)

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