On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:50:20PM -0400, P. J. Alling scripsit:
> GPS was designed for automated delivery systems to put their packages
> within a 10 foot radius.  The delivery systems go by various names but
> mostly tomahawk, and the packages mostly go boom. Your use of the
> system  was an afterthought.

It was also intended as an ocean navigation replacement for LORAN and
other, similar systems; one of the precision drivers was wanting the
ship to stay in the channel.  (Very embarrassing when your navigational
fix is off by 50 m and you put a carrier on a mud bank.)

-- Graydon

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