Spinning Pizza of Death

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Spinning Pizza of Death
Usage: n.
Derivation: OS X; common

See Also: Death, X of


Spinning Pizza of Death: n.

[OS X; common] The quartered-circle busy indicator on Mac OS X versions before 10.2, after which it was replaced by a sort of rainbow pinwheel thingy. It was analogous to the Microsoft Windows hourglass, but OS X 10.0's legendary slowness under the Aqua toolkit made this term rather more evocative. See Death, X of.

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Source: Spinning Pizza of Death, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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