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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>not ready for prime time</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="../N.html" title="N"/><link rel="previous" href="not-entirely-unlike-X.html" title="not entirely unlike X"/><link rel="next" href="notwork.html" title="notwork"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">not ready for prime time</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="not-entirely-unlike-X.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">N</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="notwork.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="not-ready-for-prime-time"/><dt xmlns="" id="not-ready-for-prime-time"><b>not ready for prime time</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Usable, but only just so; not very robust; for internal use only.
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Said of a program or device. Often connotes that the thing will be made
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more solid <a href="../R/Real-Soon-Now.html"><i class="glossterm">Real Soon Now</i></a>. This term comes from the
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ensemble name of the original cast of <i class="citetitle">Saturday Night
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Live</i>, the “<span class="quote">Not Ready for Prime Time Players</span>”. It
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has extra flavor for hackers because of the special (though now
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semi-obsolescent) meaning of <a href="../P/prime-time.html"><i class="glossterm">prime time</i></a>. Compare
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