Vulcan nerve pinch

[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 Amigas this is --; on PC clones this is Ctrl-Alt-Del; on Suns, L1-A; on Macintoshes, it is - or --! On IRIX, , which kills and restarts the X server, is sometimes called a vulcan nerve pinch. Also called {three-finger salute} and Vulcan death grip. At shops with a lot of Microsoft Windows machines, this is often called the Microsoft Maneuver because of the distressing frequency with which Microsoft's unreliable software requires it. Compare {quadruple bucky}.

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