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General => General Technical Chat => Topic started by: e100 on October 03, 2021, 03:45:09 am

Title: The early history of the CAN bus standard?
Post by: e100 on October 03, 2021, 03:45:09 am
A few days ago I asked this question over in the projects and tech but nobody responded.  :-\

"Whilst pondering the timing and cable length limitations associated with the in-frame ACK system, I tried searching for the history of the CAN bus standard and the web just kind of says it was invented as a brand new thing in 1986. Is that the whole story or did it evolve from something else, and was the use of an in-frame ACK system a completely novel idea at the time?"

Does anyone know of any resources that may shed light on its development?