[Thumbgps-devel] Macx-1, prototype #3 arrives in redwood city

[Eric S. Raymond]

dave taht <dave.taht at gmail.com>:
> My prototype arrived today.
> 
> I am on the second floor of a concrete building. Nearby are several
> hundred machines (archive.org, ntp.org, the f-root cluster, etc). I
> am 20 feet from the nearest window, with no clear view of the sky.
> 
> I have a lock, on 6 satellites! It's still refining it's estimate as
> to my attitude and speed (right now it thinks I'm moving at .6mph),
> but wow.

Yeah, the indoor performance of this thing is *astonishing*.  Blows the
doors off any other GPS I've ever used.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>