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Star Wars jargon in Catalyst 4500-E Series SUP?

I've been curious about this for a very long time, I guess it's time to ask.

When the 4500-E series switch boots and if you issue a 'show run' there's several Star Wars themed references and their revisions.

Does anyone know what these actually are and why they are using Star Wars terminology?

Here's the output:

Cisco IOS Software, Catalyst 4500 L3 Switch Software (cat4500e-ENTSERVICESK9-M), Version 12.2(53)SG2, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)

Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport

Copyright (c) 1986-2010 by Cisco Systems, Inc.

Compiled Tue 16-Mar-10 04:50 by prod_rel_team

Image text-base: 0x10000000, data-base: 0x12794974

ROM: 12.2(44r)SG5

Darkside Revision 4, Jawa Revision 18, Tatooine Revision 140, Forerunner Revision 1.78

1AR1R2-NC1 uptime is 2 years, 2 weeks, 3 days, 15 hours, 44 minutes

System returned to ROM by power-on

System restarted at 19:29:14 UTC Fri Jun 4 2010

System image file is "bootflash:cat4500e-entservicesk9-mz.122-53.SG2.bin"

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handoko wiyanto
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i think the guy that compile the IOS is a huge fan of star wars

  Think they just like to keep it lite  and not let it get boring .  I have seen a few "dagobah" messages as it loads too.

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