On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 12:44:14 -0400, "Norman Vine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <000701c1e7c1$712a8180$a300a8c0@nhv>:
> im Wilson writes: > > > >Norman Vine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > >> >That would do the trick. We'd need that anyway if we wanted to do > >> >an approximate model of a GPS some day. > >> > >> I don't understand what you mean by model a GPS > >> Are you are using 'GPS' to mean a 'muti-function' GPS receiver ? > > > >Support for a "NRST" airport button? > > Gottcha -- I keep forgetting that 'GPS' is shorthand nowadays for > a multifunction navigation computer that has a GPS reciever builtin > > FWIW > The first GPS I worked with took up most of a 4x6 foot equipment ..stone age. _Everything_ done in hardware? Navstar? Valves? ;-) > rack and only measured time differences converting these into a > latlon was done by entering these by hand into yet another computer > system and / or doing a quick slide rule calculation > > Never mind having a general purpose navigation routines builtin :-) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
