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stone knives and bearskins
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n. [from the Star Trek Classic episode The City on the Edge of Forever ] A
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term traditionally used to describe (and deprecate) computing environments
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that are grotesquely primitive in light of what is known about good ways to
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design things. As in Don't get too used to the facilities here. Once you
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leave SAIL it's stone knives and bearskins as far as the eye can see.
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Compare steam-powered.
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