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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: UUCP g stats / baud isnt bps
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Date: 4 Oct 88 00:17:59 GMT
References: <183@arnold.UUCP> <1988Sep20.184054.2403@utzoo.uucp> <184@arnold.UUCP> <202@arnold.UUCP>
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>In article <1464@netmbx.UUCP> blume@netmbx.UUCP (Heiko Blume) writes:
>>as far as i remember the baud rate tells you how many changes of the
>>discrete signal levels are possible.

Not exactly.  `Baud rate' means `number of channel symbols per unit
time'; multiplying this by `number of bits per channel system' gives
the more familiar bits per unit time, typically bits per second.

In article <202@arnold.UUCP> dave@arnold.UUCP (Dave Arnold) writes:
>Yes.  However, most people I know say "baud" when referring to
>"bps".  I am aware of the difference, but say "baud" anyway.
>In the future, this is going to be a confusion.  I think we
>should all get this right now.  Saying "baud" is really pointless
>unless you are intimate with the signaling details.

It may be best to stick with `bps'.  After all, I use a Telebit TB+
modem at 19200 *baud* ... between the serial port on the TB+ and that
on the Vax!  That part of the link runs at 19200 channel symbols per
second, with each channel symbol conveying one bit.  The modem-to-
modem link uses something else entirely, but I never said which link
was `19200 baud'.
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