"John Proctor" wrote in message
news:2005032704322875249%lost@nowhereorg...
On 2005-03-27 03:46:13 +1000, Markus Baertschi said:

Larry W4CSC wrote:
Oh, boy! Another proprietary, improperly documented, non-standard data
protocol designed to keep the marine electronics assholes swimming in
money for another decade.......

CAN is a properly documented, standard, non-proprietary protocol. It is
well suited for control and data is harsh environments. Much better than
what you metion.

The problem is more that the way the standard base layers are used by
applications is proprietay. But that has nothing to do with CAN and
everything with the companies using it.

Markus

This has been discussed before. CAN is used in a wide variety of
application areas including most atomotive vehicles designed today.
However, you'll never convince Larry that ethernet isn't the ultimate
answer for marine instrumentation. He's never seen a boat that couldn't
bennefit from some Netgear hardware :-)

The real argument as has been pointed out many times is not the underlying
technology but the bonehead marketing efforts of the NMEA and their very
expensive boys club!

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Regards,
John Proctor VK3JP, VKV6789
S/V Chagall

That's it. There is nothing wrong with CAN. It is the way that NMEA is
handling the application specific part.

Doug