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A comment on Japan's Rail Workers Pointing at Things (2017). Parent comment

Re:Japan's Rail Workers Pointing at Things (2017) by stordoff on Sunday January 20, 2019 @04:59PM (#18955871)
I have read, though I'm struggling to find an original source, that it was due to memory constraints - it was easier to spawn a vehicle if it was already loaded than to keep paging between them.
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Re:Japan's Rail Workers Pointing at Things (2017) by jchw on Sunday January 20, 2019 @11:40PM (#18957683)
That sounds like it is probably true. I have never heard any official confirmation that it was a gag, so I think this explanation must be the correct one.
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