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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
Subject: Re: UUCP g stats
Message-ID: <13922@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 9 Oct 88 18:30:22 GMT
References: <184@arnold.UUCP> <1892@van-bc.UUCP> <2032@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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>>>How are you computing bandwidth utilization?
>>>(c * 8) / b
>>>where b = baud and c = chars. per second?

>>You probably want to multiply by (at least) 10 instead of just 8
>>since the 1 start bit and 1 to 2 stop bits count here as well.

In article <2032@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> tboutell@vax1.acs.udel.EDU
(Thomas B Boutell) writes:
>This is not true under all circumstances, even with asynchronous modems.
>The Telebit Trailblazer and USR HST 9600, to name two, are capable of
>eliminating the two stop bits when communicating at their highest speeds;

The problem is that I cannot get the Vax (or Sun or . . .) to use anything
less than 10 bits.

Remember, the idea is to find the use of the `available' bandwidth,
which is no better than the rate at which I can get my Vax hardware
to send or receive.  (I know: `fixed in 4.0' :-) )
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