Vulcan nerve pinch
<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
<Cmd>-<Power switch>! 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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