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- From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
- Subject: Re: BAUD != BPS
- Message-ID: <68918@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 00:14:13 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <68573@cup.portal.com><1992Oct27.154920.10893W@baron.edb.tih.no
- > <rwm.720505252@atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca>
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- >joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan) writes:
- >>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!
- >
- > Think of it this way : When you think of the transitions in the
- >SERIAL CABLE between the modem and the computer, rather than the
- >transmission over the phone line, BPS == BAUD <grin>.
-
- IF that is what the manuals meant. However, that is not what they are
- refering to.
-
- Speed measurement is number of bits per second, regardless of how many
- phases, channels, etc. Baud cannot descibe this measurement on a "format
- free" basis. That is, no matter what form of transmission, BPS is always a
- perfectly accurate and concise means of descibing speed. Baud is only
- accurate in a few instances. It's like using the term SPEED instead of MPH.
- MPH is only one description using one set of measurements. SPEED translates
- to any measurement or method - it is always "distance per time." (Actually,
- baud would be more like "wheel revs" vs. speed :-)
-
- > Russell McOrmond, Ottawa Ontario, Canada | Opinions expressed
- > Freenet: aa302@freenet.carleton.ca (Faster) | in this message are
- > Home: rwm@Atronx.OCUnix.On.Ca | my own and I
- > FidoNet 1:163/109 Current WELMAT | represent nobody
- > Welmat Help 1:1/139 'keeper of sources'. | else.
- >
-
- -Joel
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- / Joel E. Swan....Pres./...Media Specialties, Ltd., Oak Forest, IL.USA /
- / & Senior Producer..../...Moody Broadcasting Network, Chicago, IL. USA /
- / Portal ID: joeles..../...joeles@cup.portal.com /
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