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From: kms@ecsvax.UUCP (Ken Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: "baud" == "bits"/"second"
Summary: a mis-typing here????
Message-ID: <7283@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jul 89 04:11:59 GMT
References: <42300@bbn.COM> <114038@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <114038@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes:
> If I may be so bold to put in another "bit" of information :
> 
> This explains why the maximum throughput of a 9600 baud line
> is 960 ASCII characters per second, and yet since characters have 8
> bits in them (7 + parity) that yields only 7680 bits/second of actual
> data.  
> 

You mean 9600 baud does NOT equal 960 ASCII chars per second
because there are 10 bits per ASCII char in transmission.
And 9600 - (2 * 960) = 7680 bits/second of actual data.

> Fun isn't it?
> 
Every little bit helps....

> --Chuck McManis

--ken



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