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Re: [rtl] IP useage from rtlinux, reply to Richard Teltz



At 23:21 06/10/1998 +0200, Thomas Wuensche wrote:
>Richard Teltz wrote:
>
>> ARCNET, CANbus, etc are not supported by a terrifically wide number
of
>> vendors, and QNX is great if all your machines are QNX (kind of like
>> MicroSoft).
>
>What is your background information to state that CAN is not
supported by 
>a wide number of vendors? This may hold true if you compare CAN with
the 
>whole range of office applications, if however you compare realtime
>related applications, I think it is wrong.

Don't forget, CAN is also prioritized. The destination address of a
packet is also its priority. When collisions occur, the lower priority
device is expected to back off.

http://www.llp.fu-berlin.de/pool/newproj/CAN/ is a good starting place
for Linux users.
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