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Dave's Garage
Neil Roy
Member #2,229
April 2002
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I just wanted to pass on this great Youtube channel. It's called "Dave's Garage" and it run by a developer who worked on MS-DOS and Windows back in the day. He actually invented the task manager on his own time and it was ultimately incorporated into Windows to this day. He wrote quite a few different parts of Windows. He has some interesting stories from back then.

The following is a recent one he posted on CTRL+ALT+DEL with some interesting info on it. I think the most fascinating is that it is hardware secure and if you press it to login, no malware can take over those keys, I didn't know that.

Anyhow, check out his channel, the guy apparently doesn't do the videos for money as I guess he has plenty.

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GullRaDriel
Member #3,861
September 2003
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Nice, I'm bookmarking it for later :-)

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MiquelFire
Member #3,110
January 2003
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This is Dave according to XKCD: https://xkcd.com/612/

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Neil Roy
Member #2,229
April 2002
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Newest episode today is about the secret history of the scroll-lock key.

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amarillion
Member #940
January 2001
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Oooh, the Scroll Lock conspiracy :-D

Thanks for the tip!

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