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)