Check out the simple, fascinating origin story of Ctrl+Alt+Delete

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Here's how what is perhaps the most iconic key combination in computing history got its start.
Ctrl+Alt+Delete. It's the one key combination that practically everyone, including your tech-challenged family members, knows as the go-to for getting out of sticky situations with an unresponsive PC.
But how did that specific combinations come to be?

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