(Or "three-finger salute", Vulcan death grip from the old "Star Trek" TV series via CommodoreAmigahackers) 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 -! 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)
