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- From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: BAUD != BPS
- Message-ID: <68917@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 00:13:54 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Oct27.154920.10893W@baron.edb.tih.no>
- <68573@cup.portal.com> <1992Oct29.215056.9913@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>
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- >Quoth joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan):
- >]>I wonder just how many of you out there thinks that baud = bps (bits per
- >]>second) ???
- >]>Well, it seems like quite a lot. Even the newest ncomm uses the term baud.
- >]>
- >]>Baud has something to do with nr of symbols, and symbols are 4 bits!!
- >]>(a 2400 baud modem is actually 9600 bps!!!!)
- >]>For more info on symbols etc. Find out what QAM is...
- >]>
- >]>So please stop writing baud if you really mean bps!
- >]>
- >]>Trond Sausjord Trondheim College of Engineering
- >]>
- >]>tronds@edb.tih.no
- >]>
- >]
- >]How true. It makes me sick to see this misuse come along in the last 7
- >]years or so. What I can't understand is why the modem manufacturers insist
- >]on spreading this wrong usage of terms in their manuals no less!
- >
- >If I may interrupt this mutual admiration society for a moment....
- >
- >Bully for the both of you, but if you're quite finished elevating your own
- >status at the expense of others, I'd like to point out that if you're that
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Say what? Elevating status? Expense of
- others? That makes no sense.
-
- >hung up on the difference, it might be time for a career move. Really, if
- >in casual conversation you can't get base terminology like that, it's more
- >than useless to even try.
-
- Before you look too far down that long nose of yours, look at what you are
- reading. My statement was that I was sick of seeing this in manufacturer's
- manuals NOT "casual conversation." Furthermore, I am not hung up on the
- difference in terms. It is those that WILL NOT use the correct ones that
- are "hung up." They simply can't seem to get themselves to use the right
- word.
-
- ><congratulations... you hit my pet peeve right on the button>
-
- Hey, it's YOUR pet peeve, not mine. You said it :-)
-
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- >Jeff Grimmett [SuperBitMap BBS] | fido!1:202/1401.0 [619-460-7290]
- >NCR -- Torrey Pines Development Center | jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com
- > "Oh, I'm a FidoNut and I'm OK, I flame all night and I sleep all day."
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- *
- >
-
- Okay Jock? What, Jock is not your name? Big deal, I can use any word I
- want according to your mentality, right? After all, it's only casual
- conversation.
-
- How long could NCR stay in business if technical terms were allowed to mean
- anything you want? Probably not very long - especially when things would
- begin to blow up as they were plugged in. ;-)
-
- -Joel
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- / & Senior Producer..../...Moody Broadcasting Network, Chicago, IL. USA /
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