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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Vulcan nerve pinch</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../V.html" title="V"/><link rel="previous" href="VR.html" title="VR"/><link rel="next" href="vulture-capitalist.html" title="vulture capitalist"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Vulcan nerve pinch</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="VR.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">V</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="vulture-capitalist.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Vulcan-nerve-pinch"/><dt xmlns="" id="Vulcan-nerve-pinch"><b>Vulcan nerve pinch</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the old <i class="citetitle">Star Trek</i> TV series via
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Commodore Amiga hackers] The keyboard combination that forces a soft-boot
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or jump to ROM monitor (on machines that support such a feature). On
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Amigas this is <Ctrl>-<Left-Amiga>-<Right-Amiga>; on PC
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clones this is Ctrl-Alt-Del; on Suns, L1-A; on Macintoshes, it is
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<Cmd>-<Power switch> or <Cmd>-<Ctrl>-<Power>!
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On IRIX,
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<Left-Ctrl><Left-Shift><F12><Keypad-Slash>, which
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kills and restarts the X server, is sometimes called a vulcan nerve pinch.
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Also called <a href="../T/three-finger-salute.html"><i class="glossterm">three-finger salute</i></a> and <span class="firstterm">Vulcan death grip</span>. At shops with a lot of
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Microsoft Windows machines, this is often called the <span class="firstterm">Microsoft Maneuver</span> because of the distressing
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frequency with which Microsoft's unreliable software requires it. Compare
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