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Death Square n.

The corporate logo of Novell, the people who acquired USL

after AT&T let go of it (Novell eventually sold the Unix

group to SCO). Coined by analogy with Death Star, because many people believed

Novell was bungling the lead in Unix systems exactly as AT&T

did for many years.

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