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