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alright so it's around 2 30 p.m you're stuck at work and you're desperate to
get away for a coffee because your boss is breathing down your neck for
i don't know a line graph or something but suddenly you glance down at your
keyboard and you get an idea what would happen if i actually hit that
key so you spring into action mashing your index finger down on it and as it
bottoms out your boss freezes and a delightful coffee appears right in front
of you pause break am i right well
no no i'm not right so what is the break
button actually there for then i mean unlike the scroll lock key which
you can learn more about up here it doesn't even toggle that little light on
your keyboard well the origins of the break key
actually go all the way back to the 1800s when zesty memes were sent via
telegraph rather than the internet back then if two people were
communicating via teleprinter one person could press break to break the circuit
which effectively interrupted the sender and let them know that the other end
needed to transmit something this usually happened when one new source
that was sharing a telegraph line with others has some breaking news to report
but even though teleprinters have long been obsolete the break keys stuck
around on computer keyboards as a means to stop or terminate a running program
now this functionality was much more common back before graphical operating
systems were a thing but for fun you can still use control plus break to
terminate a program in dos or in other text only environments but on a more
practical note you might also still see a system administrator using the break
key if a pc is connected to a mainframe and they have to interrupt the boot
process to recover a password but that doesn't have much applicability
to you folks at home does it so a far more common use for you would be to
pause that flow of text you might see on your own computer at boot time like if
you'd like to see BIOS messages that might help you understand or troubleshoot
any issues you're having now it doesn't work on every pc but gives a shot the
next time you fire up your system if you're curious the pause button will
also stop any huge avalanche of text scrolling down your screen if you're
using command prompt and even if you can't be bothered to care about anything
that has to do with old school command line computing there are still two
modern applications for pause break holding down the Windows key and
pressing pause break will bring up your system property screen and some games
will let you press pause to pause your gameplay makes sense right it
does make me wonder why that isn't the standard but even if your favorite game
doesn't use the pause key for this purpose you can always use hotkey
software to make this extraneous button do whatever you'd like be it in games or
in adobe premiere just whatever you program it to do don't expect it to
bring a halt to those incessant work messages about how you need to find a
way to make episodes about obscure keyboard buttons more compelling
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