wanted. english word.

Tim Hammerquist tim at vegeta.ath.cx
Mon May 28 17:50:24 EDT 2001


Laura Creighton <lac at cd.chalmers.se> wrote:
> What do you call the thing that pops up and says `Searching' or something
> to reassure the user that his computer hasn't crashed and the application
> is still running? 

Before MS Windows, was there a need to reassure the user that his box
hadn't crashed?

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