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From: berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: Bits, baud rate, and bps
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Date: 19 Jun 88 19:25:00 GMT
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Nf-From: clio.las.uiuc.edu!berger    Jun 19 14:25:00 1988


It's cute, but I wish it had stuck to the topic.  Confusing people
with statements like "There are no 1200 baud modems" wrongly
reduces the credibility of experts that know better (what's a
202?  Amateur radio operators use them, and they're still common
in industry).

			Mike Berger
			Department of Statistics 
			Science, Technology, and Society
			University of Illinois 

			berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu
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