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.

    3. The IBM DeskStar 75GXP drive series, which suffered manufacturing
    problems and had an uncanny ability to die after a few months in the field.
    This drive series single-handedly destroyed IBM's previously very good
    reputation in the hard disk market, and ended up with IBM selling their
    hard disk business to Hitachi.

Death Star

   ["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.