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That IBM PC engineer was David Bradley. Bradley, who designed the computer in 1980, said in an older interview that \"it was originally intended to be what we would now call an Easter Egg, just something we were just using in development -- it wouldn't be available elsewhere.\"
That certainly wasn't the case. Introduced in 1981, the command still lives on in Windows, including Microsoft's current Windows 8 operating system.
According to a 2010 article in the Indianapolis Star, the original idea was to create a way to restart the computer. He chose those keys because he didn't want people to mistakenly hit the keys and on that original IBM keyboard the Delete key was on the other side and, thus, required two hands.
Bradley said he didn't think it would become a \"cultural icon,\" and then taking a shot at Gates and Windows' all-too-well-known issues, he said, \"I might have invented it, but I think Bill made it famous.\"
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