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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Death Star</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="Death-Square.html" title="Death Square"/><link rel="next" href="Death--X-of.html" title="Death, X of"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Death Star</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Death-Square.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Death--X-of.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Death-Star"/><dt xmlns="" id="Death-Star"><b>Death Star</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the movie <i class="citetitle">Star Wars</i>] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. The AT&T corporate logo, which bears an uncanny resemblance
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to the Death Star in the Star Wars movies. This usage was particularly
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common among partisans of <a href="../B/BSD.html"><i class="glossterm">BSD</i></a> Unix in the 1980s, who
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tended to regard the AT&T versions as inferior and AT&T as a bad
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guy. Copies still circulate of a poster printed by Mt. Xinu showing a
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starscape with a space fighter labeled 4.2 BSD streaking away from a broken
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AT&T logo wreathed in flames.</p></dd><dd><p> 2. AT&T's internal magazine, <i class="citetitle">Focus</i>, uses
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<span class="firstterm">death star</span> to describe an incorrectly
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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
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images.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Death-Square.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Death--X-of.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Death Square </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Death, X of</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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