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Re:Why some apps use fake progress bars (2017) by oh_sigh on Friday February 02, 2018 @10:56PM (#16296070)
This sounds like a Coding Horror story that is entirely made up. Using a timer made your code go from 5 to 8 minutes?
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Re:Why some apps use fake progress bars (2017) by benjohnson on Sunday February 04, 2018 @01:07PM (#16303907)
We had only 16 Megs of RAM. I think it had put chunks of the query process to virtual memory to deal with the 'on timer' stuff in the GUI process.
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