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GPS stands for 'Global Positioning System', but if you instead think of it as 'global positioning system', then all these satellite systems are GPS, because yes they are literally all a 'global positioning system', they're just not the 'Global Positioning System'.

That's what happens when you give something specific a very generic name. People shouldn't do that.




>That's what happens when you give something specific a very generic name. People shouldn't do that.

Yeah, but wasn't it named Navstar-GPS?


It's just called Global Positioning System now - they dropped 'Navstar'.




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