Re: Widely used low level API?

> I designed a CAN/USB device for my company and we sell it via the web.  In my
> experience, I have only ever heard of one common API that was requested by a
> potential customer - I can't remember what it was now and never heard of it
> again, so that may be a good sign that it was not widely used or adopted.
> Of course I never really ever looked again, so I may be completely wrong.
>
> We ended up creating our own custom API, but really its almost as simple as
> Open, Close, Send, Receive.  Users of the API are usually not too
> intimidated by such simple functionality, and there is not really much
> software out there (at least that I'm aware of) that uses a common driver
> API anyway.