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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: hooking PC's together
Message-ID: <259@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 29 Feb 88 17:06:11 GMT
References: <673@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> <63200030@convexe> <1305@qetzal.UUCP> <3438@cup.portal.com> <1400@qetzal.UUCP>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg)
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In article <1400@qetzal.UUCP> rcw@qetzal.UUCP (0000-Robert C. White) writes:
|Isaac brings up an interesting point.  I always thought that 'baud'
|and 'bps' were the same thing.  They aren't. 

"Baud" is of interest only to modem designers.  We users, OTOH, are
interested in how fast our information gets transferred, and THAT is
measured in "bps".  But then again, every tissue isn't a Kleenex either! :-)
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