alt Hacker NewsI'm guessing it's called StarLink because the design uses a Star network topology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_network
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nticompass • today at 12:24 PM
Is that related to StarLAN?
daniela-vera • today at 7:00 AM
The star-topology read is a fun guess, but the real bottleneck in any 1984-era version would've been the ground stations, not the mesh. Feels more like a nod to that era's centralized comms than a literal network diagram.
This is a great demonstration of why trademarks aren't forever or universal, and shouldn't be.