On Tue, 8 Aug 2023 at 23:23, Michael Brutman via Freedos-devel <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Microsoft Engineer "Steve Ballmer" ? > > Ballmer was on the business side of things at Microsoft. He didn't write > code.
This. I think OP is getting faint memories of anecdotes coming out of MICROS~1 confused. There is a widespread story that Ballmer _was_ responsible for the wording of the "Ctrl Alt Del" message in Win3. That's true: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140902-00/?p=93 This is not the BSOD screen: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140909-00/?p=44123 -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
