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by russfink 396 days ago
They named it “Forscan?” They really named it that, not thinking it could sound close to something else entirely unrelated?
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Surely you don't think the executives at Ford expect us to Power Stroke without FORScan?
Ford’s own software is called FDRS.

Forscan was developed independently by some Russian gentlemen, probably with plenty of reference to FDRS/IDS internals.

Volkswagen's equivalent is VAG-COM