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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:30376 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4204 sci.electronics:84891 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc,sci.electronics Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!news.ecn.bgu.edu!siemens!princeton!flagstaff.princeton.edu!winnie From: winnie@flagstaff.princeton.edu (Jon Edelson) Subject: Re: 16550 detection Message-ID: <1994Nov20.182744.26251@Princeton.EDU> Originator: news@hedgehog.Princeton.EDU Sender: news@Princeton.EDU (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: flagstaff.princeton.edu Organization: Princeton University References: <1994Nov18.082900.12223@slate.mines.colorado.edu> <3akesk$e0p@tadpole.fc.hp.com> <1994Nov20.071802.82073@slate.mines.colorado.edu> Date: Sun, 20 Nov 1994 18:27:44 GMT Lines: 25 >Bob Myers (myers@fc.hp.com) wrote: >: Ade Barkah (mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu) wrote: >: > Actually, I don't even think for 2400 bps modem 1 baud==1 bps. >: > If I remember, the 2400 bps modems already use quadrature >: > amplitute modulation (qam) encoding, with 600 baud/s at 4 bits >: > per baud. > >: Just a minor nit to pick here - there's no such thing as "baud/sec". >: Baud rate is given in baud, which is the information transfer rate >: in SYMBOLS per second. You can properly refer to a "2400 baud" >: interface, but NOT a "2400 baud/second" interface. Humor nit: There is such a thing as "baud/sec", it just isn't what people normally think of. Baud means symbols per second, so baud/sec means symbols per second per second or the rate change of the rate of moving symbols (acceleration). Don't know what the unit is, or where one would use it (probably in a transciever specification where the baud clock is allowed to change at some maximum rate or some such) -Jon