Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!cica!gatech!udel!mmdf
From: denbeste%bbn.com@mitvma.mit.edu (Steven Den Beste)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: "baud" == "bits"/"second"
Message-ID: <19246@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 8 Jul 89 01:35:49 GMT
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     Ok, now I feel like a total boob correcting Steven about this baud
 thing, only to find that a dozon or so other people (evil Unix-types,
 no doubt) already beat me to the, um, punch.

     Well, with bits, bauds, and bytes flying around 2400 baud and
 2400 bps is escentialy the same thing.

     That is, if a random sample of survayed bits do indeed subscribe
 to a well respected baud, and we are talking ten bits per character
 (seven, around two paraty bits, wraped by one stop bit) and there
 isn't unusual sunspot activity and good little data keeps to the right
 so to avoid a data collision and possible loss of life THEN just
 maybe I can send a message through the internet gateway, beamed
 via satalite at 150 baud (or whatever) and somewhere land in the
 vicinity of comp.sys.amiga.

     It works well over 50 % of the time.  I don't know why!

 Customer:  Why can't this computer talk to that one?

 Techie:  It's impossible, ok!  Now leave me alone, will ya?

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