On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:37:18 +0000, John Williamson wrote:

Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Adrian C
wrote:

On 05/03/2012 16:04, Tim Streater wrote:

Minimise, maximise, Task Bar, CTRL-Z, F1, CTRL-Alt-Del, Start, are
all OS-specific.


But still there, in some form across all OS's.

I've no idea what F1 is supposed to be for, but I can tell you that my
OS has no equivalent to Start or CTRL-Alt-Del.

F1 is the Windows standard way to open the Help menu in an application,
and has been since Windows 3, if not before.

Long before. It was documented as the preferred Help key on the very
first PC (there's a list of recommended keys in the original Technical
Reference Manual, circa 1981).

CTRL-Alt-Del works on Windows, DOS and used to work on Linux until they
started trapping it and ignoring it in the GUI. The last time I tried
it, it still worked in a text terminal under X. I assume there's an
equivalent on Apple machines.

But it works differently on DOS and Windows, of course.



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