Re: another one bites the dust.

From: Alex Chudnovsky <alexc_at_jungle.com>
Date: Thu 30 Aug 2001 12:49:27 -0500

JIM CARLINI <carlini_at_nwu.edu> WROTE:

> There is NO such thing as 9600 BAUD. It's 9600 bits per
> second.

Baud is loosely defined as BIT PER SECOND
("One baud is one electronic state change per second"
actually).

"The measure [baud] was named after a French engineer,
Jean-Maurice-Emile Baudot. It was first used to measure
the speed of telegraph transmissions."

Re: http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci211643,00.html

Baud notation is no longer actively used outside old
timers and I believe was used by original author to
stress his point of returning to the dark ages when BAUD
was known to far more people than now.


Regards,

Alex Chudnovsky



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