"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
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Markus Baertschi wrote in
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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.



Name 5 items prior to this announcement that uses CAN protocol.....

Thousands of factory floor and industrial process control applications. CAN
isn't the problem, it the semantics of the NMEA data that is apparently a
closely guarded secret. You have to be willing to shell out some big
bucks just to play in the game.

Doug