The folks at adafruit probably do know, but it does make sense if you expand the words: "Control, Alter, and Delete"

crazygringo a day ago | parent | next [-]

That's more charitable. Alt is still short for Alternate though, not Alter.

YeGoblynQueenne a day ago | parent | next [-]

I thought "Alt" in the title is meant in the sense of "stop", as in "halt", but on second thoughts maybe that only works in French (where h is always silent)?

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viccis 21 hours ago | parent [-]

It's clearly meant to be part of the Ctrl-Alt-Del key sequence that interrupts Windows computers to bring up the task manager.

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crazygringo 20 hours ago | parent [-]

But doesn't Ctrl+Alt+Del bring up the screen to switch users or sign out? "Task Manager" is one item in the list of options you get, but it's not the main one or anything, in fact it's the last:

https://www.lifewire.com/thmb/hzx6btMYEqZJfSAL3WVxXuW3-jw=/1...

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aaronmdjones 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The author may just be showing their age a bit. That's what Ctrl+Alt+Del does on modern versions of Windows, but from Windows 95 to Windows XP (inclusive) it directly launched the Task Manager.

	▲	tosti an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Ctrl+Alt+Del on an IBM PC or a compatible clone reboots the machine no questions asked. There's a dedicated reset button in case that fails. Doing anything other than a reboot started with protected mode MS-Windows 3.1 IIRC (then marketed as "386 enhanced mode").

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NekkoDroid 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Would have made more sense to say Ctrl+Shift+Esc since that just directly brings up the task manager. All in all I would say it is a slightly weird title, but I assume enough people get what they want to say with it.

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zoky a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, technically it’s short for alter on the way to being short for alternate

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lysace 18 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's bullshit (IMO) and the post author (Phillip Torrone - I believe that's one of the owners of Adafruit) is obviously ignorant in this regard.

That said, what he's actually talking about in the post makes a lot of sense. That is the important part.