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
-! 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)