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From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: dave taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>
Cc: thumbgps-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Thumbgps-devel] Macx-1, prototype #3 arrives in redwood city
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 18:46:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120514224605.GA7232@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FB18539.1060705@gmail.com>

dave taht <dave.taht@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.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-14 22:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-14 22:20 dave taht
2012-05-14 22:46 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
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2012-05-15 20:05   ` Dave Taht

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