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Re:The GPS wars have begun by burfog on Sunday December 23, 2018 @05:30AM (#18745399)
The US GPS system was alone for so long that people just call it "GPS". The name is Navstar-GPS. Those other systems are also GPS, but not Navstar.
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Re:The GPS wars have begun by Waterluvian on Sunday December 23, 2018 @06:48AM (#18745611)
GNSS has become the accepted blanket term for them all. GPS is the U.S. one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_navigation

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Re:The GPS wars have begun by billfruit on Sunday December 23, 2018 @08:28AM (#18745949)
I thought Glonass satellites were up in orbit by mid 80s almost the same time as the US Navistar system.
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Re:The GPS wars have begun by omgtehlion on Sunday December 23, 2018 @09:48AM (#18746326)
They were up there at the time but not complete constellation
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