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Originally Posted by Benson View Post
Isn't someone gonna show up and tell us how the Newton did something like that? Really, it had some sorta natural-language parser that would be helpful in this context; your whole plan sounds (from what little I know) like a Newton natural. At least if Jobs hadn't killed the Newtons, so that there'd be GPS Newtons around...
Actually, the original Newton MessagePad had an extraordinarily advanced and elegantly implemented GPS receiver featuring a highly refined oscillatory crystal that was superior to any currently available non-military GPS units, but the achievement of its potential performance went unnoticed at the time due to an unfortunate dearth of orbiting GPS satellites. The situation was not unlike this famous historical analogue.
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