And FIP bus lost out to ProfiBus, despite arguably being better. And Profinet supposedly led to OPC and so on. Due to FIP bus having time stamping capabilities

And FIP bus lost out to ProfiBus, despite arguably being better. And Profinet supposedly led to OPC and so on. Due to FIP bus having time stamping capabilities it was used at Cern and so eventually Cern ended up buying the rights to it and the FIP chip etc, but almost no one uses it today. Occasionally you come across a legacy industrial FIP network. Betamax's are everywhere...