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Old 08-26-2007
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Originally Posted by sailingdog View Post

My guess is that Brak is right... that NMEA 0183 doesn't support any flow control whatsoever. That may be one reason the standard is limited to two talker devices per connection.
Well, that's just a property of serial links - only two devices get to talk to each other (each over another wire). Serial links don't have packetized communication the way anything with the bus does (like ethernet or other shared medium types). Sorry, offtopic, but that's my bread and butter
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