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From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Bulldozer cursor?
Message-ID: <7897@apple.Apple.Com>
Date: 9 Apr 88 18:16:31 GMT
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Reply-To: dan@apple.UUCP (Dan Allen)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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We put the bulldozer cursor in to let the user know that the MPW Shell
was doing garbage collection.  Occasionally the Shell needs to collect
unused blocks of memory and the like: when it does, you will see the
bulldozer.

Dan Allen
Co-author of the MPW Shell