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- From: naddy@mips.pfalz.de (Christian Weisgerber)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: What does UART stand for?
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 14:24:25 +0100
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- dale@giskard.demon.co.uk (Dale Shuttleworth) writes:
-
- > I agree that bps and baud measure different things and in many cases
- > (e.g. modems) the distinction is important. In the case of RS232
- > comms the bit rate and the number of symbols/sec will always be the
- > same and thus the two measures are effectively interchangable.
-
- They still don't mean the same thing, though.
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- > I would still recommend that the term bits/sec is used though, since
- > that is generally the parameter people are most interested in.
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