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vulcan nerve pinch
(foldoc) | Vulcan nerve pinch
three-finger salute
(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 -! 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.
[Jargon File]
(2000-04-04)
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vulcan nerve pinch
(jargon) | Vulcan nerve pinch
n.
[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 Amigas this is --
; on PC clones this is Ctrl-Alt-Del; on Suns, L1-A; on
Macintoshes, it is - or --! On IRIX,
, which kills and restarts the X
server, is sometimes called a vulcan nerve pinch. Also called {three-finger
salute} and Vulcan death grip. At shops with a lot of Microsoft Windows
machines, this is often called the Microsoft Maneuver because of the
distressing frequency with which Microsoft's unreliable software requires
it. Compare quadruple bucky.
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vulcan nerve pinch
(foldoc) | Vulcan nerve pinch
three-finger salute
(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 -! 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.
[Jargon File]
(2000-04-04)
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vulcan nerve pinch
(jargon) | Vulcan nerve pinch
n.
[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 Amigas this is --
; on PC clones this is Ctrl-Alt-Del; on Suns, L1-A; on
Macintoshes, it is - or --! On IRIX,
, which kills and restarts the X
server, is sometimes called a vulcan nerve pinch. Also called {three-finger
salute} and Vulcan death grip. At shops with a lot of Microsoft Windows
machines, this is often called the Microsoft Maneuver because of the
distressing frequency with which Microsoft's unreliable software requires
it. Compare quadruple bucky.
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