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From: lexw@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Lex Wassenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Baud vs. bps.
Summary: What *is* the difference?
Message-ID: <849@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 24 Aug 90 10:31:50 GMT
Organization: Philips Information Systems, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
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Okay, in some recent articles there were these hints about the difference
between "baud" and "bits per second". Now I for one have always thought that
baud and bps is the same. So what's the difference? Has it something to do
with bits that don't carry actual data like start and stop bits? Or is it
more subtle? Thanks to anyone who can inform me (and others).
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