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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.development:19764 comp.os.linux.misc:30271 comp.os.386bsd.questions:14617 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4185 sci.electronics:84761 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!insosf1.infonet.net!newshost.marcam.com!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.cloud9.net!cloud9.net!tls From: tls@cloud9.net (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc,sci.electronics Subject: Re: 16550 detection Followup-To: comp.dcom.modems Date: 23 Nov 1994 07:23:44 GMT Organization: Cloud 9 Internet + White Plains, New York USA Lines: 9 Message-ID: <3auqmj$kan@news.cloud9.net> References: <CMETZ.94Oct30051603@itchy.inner.net> <Cyp34w.MxC@bonkers.taronga.com> <3a8u29$mi@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <hpa.1e210000.Allah.u.Abha@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: cloud9.net In article <hpa.1e210000.Allah.u.Abha@ahab.eecs.nwu.edu>, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@nwu.edu> wrote: >Okay: baud is bits per second *PER ONE-BIT CHANNEL*. V.32bis modems, for >example, are 14400 bps and 2400 baud. This means that 2400 times a >second, six bits are transferred (six one-bit channels). This is not correct. Baud is *symbol rate*, not bits-per-anything. Most modern modems use more than two symbols -- hence 2400 baud, at six bits per symbol, gets you 14400bps.