<
jargon> (Or "three-finger salute",
Vulcan death grip; from
the old "Star Trek" TV series via
Commodore Amiga
hackers) The keyboard combination that forces a
soft boot
or jump to
ROM monitor (on machines that support such a
feature).
On an Amiga this is done with Ctrl/Right Amiga/Left Amiga; on
IBM PCs and many
microcomputers it is Ctrl/Alt/Del; on
Suns, L1-A; on some
Macintoshes, it is < Cmd >-< Power
switch > ! Silicon Graphics users are obviously the most
dextrous however, as these machines use the five-finger
combination: Left Shift/Left Ctrl/Left Alt/Keypad Divide/F12.
Compare
quadruple bucky.
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Jargon File]
(2000-04-04)