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- From: dale@giskard.demon.co.uk (Dale Shuttleworth)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: What does UART stand for?
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 18:29:29 GMT
- Organization: Dale's home Linux box.
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- Hi,
-
- Christian Weisgerber (naddy@mips.pfalz.de) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- I thought I said that? Perhaps the "many" in the first line should
- have been a "most".
-
- : > I would still recommend that the term bits/sec is used though, since
- : > that is generally the parameter people are most interested in.
-
- : !
-
- Ooops. I wasn't very clear. I meant the above with respect to RS232
- connections. Most people are interested in the number of bits/sec they
- can shift over an RS232 link, not how many signal changes per second
- occur.
-
- Dale.
-
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