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[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> esr at thyrsus.com said:
> > We can't fix *that*, either.  All we can do is add a warning to the man
> > pages for NMEA-related drivers that if your GPS is older than 1024 weeks you
> > may be cruising for a bruising.  I think I'll go do that. 
> 
> We need to find out when they added the 3 extra bits.

That is messy.  IIRC they came in with the Block III version of the sats, but
(a) I think Block IIs are still flying, and (b) we don't know whether or
when receiver firmware has been updated by anybody.  Of course this is never
documented.
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