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From: denbeste%bbn.com@mitvma.mit.edu (Steven Den Beste)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: "baud" == "bits"/"second"
Message-ID: <19245@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 8 Jul 89 01:35:27 GMT
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>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 person who reported that "baud" means "characters per second" is simply
>wrong.

     This is probably nit-picking BUT Baud does NOT mean bits per second.
 Baud (after J.M.E.  Baudot) refers to the number of, for a lack of a
 better term, packets per second.

>As a laboratory demonstration, I have a 2400 baud modem, and I run DNET.

     You have a 600 baud modem running 4 bits per baud (packet).  1200
 "baud" modems are 600 baud at 2 bits per baud.  300 baud is indeed
 300 baud.

     Your calculations are somewhat correct because a "2400 baud" modem
 is running at 2400 bits per second.  Remeber, however, the number of
 bits per character CAN vary.

     (People actually impressed with that useless bit of information
 can recieve an authenticaly signed copy of the posting by sending
 two dollors to "transcrips" P.O. Box .... |-)

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