["Star Wars" film] 1. The AT&T corporate logo, which appears
on computers sold by AT&T and bears an uncanny resemblance to
the Death Star in the movie. This usage is particularly
common among partisans of BSD Unix, who tend 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 labelled 4.2BSD 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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