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Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by lxgr on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:34PM (#50491038)
> When you see something weird in the space, assume it is because someone in the 1960s thought using more than two characters world be a profligate waste of space.

And with 1960s technology, this might just have been a very reasonable decision.

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Re:FAA Issues National Ground Stop by 0cf8612b2e1e on Friday November 13, 2026 @05:38PM (#50491088)
Totally. Just some of those decisions put awkward constraints when the hardware is now a million times more capable.
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