stone knives and bearskins
(From the Star Trek Classic episode "The City on the Edge of Forever") A term
traditionally used to describe (and deprecate) computing environments that are
grotesquely primitive in light of what is known about good ways to design
things. As in "Don't get too used to the facilities here. Once you leave SAIL
it's stone knives and bearskins as far as the eye can see".
Compare steam-powered.
[Jargon File]
(1995-01-24)
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