【科技】比尔·盖茨称Ctrl+Alt+Del是设计错误
据英国《每日邮报》报道，解决电脑死机的组合键Control-Alt-Delete 其实是当年设计上的一个错误，原本可以用单键完成。
盖茨在哈佛大学访谈时透露，解决死机问题可以用简单的一个按键完成，但是当年键盘设计上的瑕疵不得不改用三键完成。他说：“当年我们本可以使用一个键，但是IBM负责键盘设计的那个家伙不想让我们用一个键。”
这套组合键有多项用途，但设计初衷是用于“唤醒”电脑。IBM设计师大卫•布莱德雷是这套组合键的设计者，虽然在业内早就众所周知，但盖茨公开承认这套组合键是设计错误还是第一次。
早在多年前IBM成立20周年之际，布莱德雷就曾对这个设计错误做出过解释，他说：“这套组合键虽然是我设计的，但盖茨让它闻名世界。”
Bill Gates admits that Ctrl-Alt-Del was a mistake and could have been done with just one button but the keyboard designer messed up
Bill Gates has revealed that the Control-Alt-Delete function for Microsoft computer systems was a mistake that ended up sticking.
The Microsoft founder explained that the same function could have been easily achieved by having users only hit one button on their keyboard but a design flaw required the use of three fingers instead.
'We could have had a single button, but the guy who did the IBM keyboard design didn't wanna give us our single button,' he said at a talk at Harvard University.
'Because when you turn your computer on, you're going to see some screens, and eventually type your password in, you want to have something you do with the keyboard that is signalling to a very low level of the software actually hard coded in the hardware,' he explained.
It has been known in tech circles that IBM designer David Bradley was the one to come up with the plan to use three keys rather than one key for that command, but the Harvard talk was the first time that Gates readily admitted that it was a mistake.
Bradley spoke about the design quirk years ago at the 20th anniversary of IBM, trying to fairly distribute the responsibility.
'I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous,' he said at the time.
Gates didn't let it slip by without eschewing all credit, however, as he went on to praise their keyboard designs.
'We did some very clever things- the IBM PC character set, usually you have 128 characters like the lower case and upper case but we took the upper ones and put like suit symbols in- we were able to experiment with a lot of stuff but more on the software side and not the hardware,' he said.
Gates’ talk was a part of a fundraising event for Harvard, his alma mater.
He attended the prestigious college as an undergraduate but didn’t make it to his graduation ceremony on time as he dropped out to start his computer company. He was eventually awarded an honorary degree nearly three decades later.
盖茨在哈佛大学访谈时透露，解决死机问题可以用简单的一个按键完成，但是当年键盘设计上的瑕疵不得不改用三键完成。他说：“当年我们本可以使用一个键，但是IBM负责键盘设计的那个家伙不想让我们用一个键。”
这套组合键有多项用途，但设计初衷是用于“唤醒”电脑。IBM设计师大卫•布莱德雷是这套组合键的设计者，虽然在业内早就众所周知，但盖茨公开承认这套组合键是设计错误还是第一次。
早在多年前IBM成立20周年之际，布莱德雷就曾对这个设计错误做出过解释，他说：“这套组合键虽然是我设计的，但盖茨让它闻名世界。”
Bill Gates admits that Ctrl-Alt-Del was a mistake and could have been done with just one button but the keyboard designer messed up
Bill Gates has revealed that the Control-Alt-Delete function for Microsoft computer systems was a mistake that ended up sticking.
The Microsoft founder explained that the same function could have been easily achieved by having users only hit one button on their keyboard but a design flaw required the use of three fingers instead.
'We could have had a single button, but the guy who did the IBM keyboard design didn't wanna give us our single button,' he said at a talk at Harvard University.
'Because when you turn your computer on, you're going to see some screens, and eventually type your password in, you want to have something you do with the keyboard that is signalling to a very low level of the software actually hard coded in the hardware,' he explained.
It has been known in tech circles that IBM designer David Bradley was the one to come up with the plan to use three keys rather than one key for that command, but the Harvard talk was the first time that Gates readily admitted that it was a mistake.
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Bradley spoke about the design quirk years ago at the 20th anniversary of IBM, trying to fairly distribute the responsibility.
'I may have invented it, but Bill made it famous,' he said at the time.
Gates didn't let it slip by without eschewing all credit, however, as he went on to praise their keyboard designs.
'We did some very clever things- the IBM PC character set, usually you have 128 characters like the lower case and upper case but we took the upper ones and put like suit symbols in- we were able to experiment with a lot of stuff but more on the software side and not the hardware,' he said.
Gates’ talk was a part of a fundraising event for Harvard, his alma mater.
He attended the prestigious college as an undergraduate but didn’t make it to his graduation ceremony on time as he dropped out to start his computer company. He was eventually awarded an honorary degree nearly three decades later.
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