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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>stone knives and bearskins</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="Stone-Age.html" title="Stone Age"/><link rel="next" href="stoppage.html" title="stoppage"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">stone knives and bearskins</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Stone-Age.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="stoppage.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="stone-knives-and-bearskins"/><dt xmlns="" id="stone-knives-and-bearskins"><b>stone knives and bearskins</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the Star Trek Classic episode <i class="citetitle">The City on the Edge
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of Forever</i>] A term traditionally used to describe (and
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deprecate) computing environments that are grotesquely primitive in light
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of what is known about good ways to design things. As in “<span class="quote">Don't get
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too used to the facilities here. Once you leave SAIL it's stone knives and
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