+----- On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 09:35:30 EST, Brad Shelton writes:
|
| On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 01:56:31PM +0100, Michael Salmon wrote:
| >
| > +----- On Sun, 07 Mar 1999 18:13:55 MST, zentara writes:
| > [...]
| > | You were lucky to get 2400 baudrate with them.
| >
| > One of my hobby horses is the use of baud where bits per second is
| > intended. Baud rate is never of interest at the dte end of things.
|
| Welllll.... GEE. If you're gonna be that way.... `*8 >
|
| Baud only accurately refers to Mark/Space shifts up to 1200. Anything above
| that is not baud anymore. It's bits per second based on phase modulation of
| the analog wave.
Baud is the number of state changes on the line per second, for example
all V22 modems are 600 baud but the can be 600, 1200 or 2400 bps (if
you include V22.bis). The difference is the number of bits transmitted
with every state change.
/Michael
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