Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!iuvax!bsu-cs!dhesi From: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: "baud" == "bits"/"second" Message-ID: <8107@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> Date: 6 Jul 89 16:25:15 GMT References: <42300@bbn.COM> Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi) Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana Lines: 16 In article <42300@bbn.COM> denbeste@BBN.COM (Steven Den Beste) writes: >The term "baud" DOES mean "bits per second", not "characters per second". >We use it just like we use "herz" as a synonym for "cycles per second". The term "baud" refers to the number of signal levels occurring per second. It is equal to "bits per second" only when each signal level carries one bit of information. This is true for serial RS-232 links and for 300-baud modems. But a 2400 bits-per-second modem only uses a 600 baud signalling rate. By the way, your definition of "herz" is wrong too; that's what you write on towels ("hiz" and "herz"). The correct scientific name for "cycles per second" is "hertz", abbreviated "Hz". -- Rahul Dhesi UUCP: ...!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi