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From: dlou@dino.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Passing  GO, etc. (was Re: OEM)
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Date: 25 Aug 90 00:28:10 GMT
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In article <4973@pegasus.ATT.COM| dmt@pegasus.ATT.COM (Dave Tutelman) writes:
|In article <130@thor.UUCP> scjones@thor.UUCP (Larry Jones) writes:
|>Now, anyone want to discuss the correct meaning of baud?  ;-)
|>[ Hint to the unaware -- for most modems the "baud" rate is really
|>the bits per second rate, the real baud rate is quite different. ]
|
|Sure, in the proper newsgroup.  [ Hint to the semi-aware.  The modem's
|baud rate can be either higher or lower than the bits-per-second at
|which you transfer data.  Offhand, I can't think of a single modem
|where it's the same. ]
|
|Dave


Bell 103.  300 baud and 300 bps.  No?


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