Tension Slenderness Ratio - Same Beam - Different Results

I have two beams spanning 73'-6" in Ram Elements. They act as chords to a horizontal truss and as such experience tension and compression. In sizing the beams, I tried to adhere to the slenderness ratio upper limit of L/300. I ran a model where one of the beams was spliced with fixed ends at the intermediate node and a moment splice connection, and the other beam as a continuous simple span. The spliced beam passes the slenderness ratio check whereas the continuous simple span beam does not. Since the spliced beam has fixed end releases at the splice and a moment connection, it would function in the same manner as the continuous simple span. Why then are the slenderness ratios appearing to be computed differently?

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