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From: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: 9600 baud?
Message-ID: <54@ryptyde.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 91 12:58:24 GMT
Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Organization: Ryptyde Timesharing
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Responding to the following:

"> I cannot believe that it is 9600 baud.  I would assume that it is 2400
> baud carrying 4 bits per signal change. (Hence 9600 bps) Add MNP5 and
> you get 19.2Kbps (with 2:1) compression.  Add v42bis and you get 38.4K
> (with 4:1) compression.  How do you other people arrive at 9600 baud?
 
Yes, it IS a true V.32/V.42bis 9600 baud modem.  Where have you been over
the last year and a half while the V.32 protocol was being (rather loudly)
announced?"

Sorry. V.32 is a 2400 baud standard that carries 4 bits per signal, as the
previous poster implied. V.32 is 9600 BPS. bps <> baud.