spinning pizza of death

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
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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