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Death Star: n. [from the movie Star Wars] 1. The AT&T corporate logo, which bears an uncanny resemblance
to the Death Star in the Star Wars movies. This usage was particularly
common among partisans of BSD Unix in the 1980s, who
tended to regard the AT&T versions as inferior and AT&T as a bad
guy. Copies still circulate of a poster printed by Mt. Xinu showing a
starscape with a space fighter labeled 4.2 BSD streaking away from a broken
AT&T logo wreathed in flames. 2. AT&T's internal magazine, Focus, uses
death star to describe an incorrectly
done AT&T logo in which the inner circle in the top left is dark
instead of light — a frequent result of dark-on-light logo
images.
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