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- From: ged@phantom.cs.hut.fi (Camillo S{rs)
- Subject: Re: BAUD != BPS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.073221.18766@cs.hut.fi>
- Sender: usenet@cs.hut.fi (Uutis Ankka)
- Reply-To: Camillo.Sars@hut.fi
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, CS lab
- References: <1992Nov3.002330.3870@netcom.com> <9211078167@monty.apana.org.au> <1992Nov8.202422.22653@netcom.com>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 07:32:21 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- In <1992Nov8.202422.22653@netcom.com> fuzzy@netcom.com (Fuzzy Fox) writes:
-
- >I am not being silly. If Joe Bob User says to you, "I have a 2400 baud
- >modem," do you look at him with a horrible expression of consternation
- >because he has given you no information whatsoever as to how fast his
- >modem can send data from one place to another? More likely you just
- >assume he means his modem can send data at 2400 bps. This is normal and
- >probably exactly what Joe Bob intended, therefore communication has
- >occured. There is nothing silly about it.
-
- Personally, I would ask "Are you sure you don't mean a 2400 bps
- modem", to which J.B.User would reply "Huh?" and show signs of
- fainting. After that, I'd have to explain the difference between baud
- and bps. Provided that J.B.User understood me, he'd probably use the
- term bps from that moment onwards and be very proud of knowing that he
- knows something the "others" don't.
-
- --
- ged@hut.fi Amiga 500 //
- ged@niksula.cs.hut.fi 2.04// Aim for the impossible and you
- Department of Computer Science \\ // will achieve the improbable.
- Helsinki University of Technology \X/ --- Camillo S{rs
-