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From: lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Baud (was Re: Microcom Modems.....Are they any good?)
Message-ID: <89Dec9.232635est.2209@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Date: 10 Dec 89 04:27:16 GMT
References: <1989Dec4.054323.9528@larouch.uucp> <1989Dec8.090429.21867@planet.bt.co.uk> <1989Dec10.032041.19599@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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Can someone enlightnen me wrt the origin of the use of the name "baud" for a
unit for the frequency of transitions in a signal?  Or should that be "Baud"
(i.e. was this a real person?).

Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy
AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4