Ive always wondered...

...what the 'Sys Rq' button is/does on your keyboard!

How do you get it to work? Its on the same button as Print Screen and Ive tried everything.

Does it stand for System Requirements?

Can someone tell me what it does and what its for!? heh.

 

Here it is but it's not pretty. The reason most people don't know what it's good for is, it's not good for much of anything. I personally think they has several kays made up and are determined to use them all.

 

Cheers Zephyr, you've ended my long running wondering of what it does.

 

That reference didn't make it all that clear. Here's the real skinny. Back when computers could only run one program at a time, it was often necessary to interrupt the running program so as to access the operating system and issue a change of orders. That's what the "System Request" button was for. If would allow you to interrupt the running program and tell the OS to quit what it was doing, so you could regain control. Sometimes folks changed their minds after starting some intense sorting program and didn't want to wait until it finished. Remember, in those days an
operation might take several hours! It also allowed interruption of the system when it was looping (chasing its own tail) and resetting the beast.

Fortunately, the modern day computers don't have those problems. Well, actually, sometimes mine do but that's another story.

I hope that's better than the link explanation.

Cheers!