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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:30519 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4231 sci.electronics:85102 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc,sci.electronics Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!cronkite.nersc.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!caen!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!murdoch!kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU!dgj2y From: dgj2y@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Dave Jacobowitz) Subject: Re: 16550 detection Message-ID: <CzpHtr.7wD@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia References: <1994Nov18.082900.12223@slate.mines.colorado.edu> <3akesk$e0p@tadpole.fc.hp.com> <1994Nov20.071802.82073@slate.mines.colorado.edu> <1994Nov20.182744.26251@Princeton.EDU> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1994 05:56:15 GMT Lines: 21 >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) > This could come up if you were writing a history of data communications and you wanted to quantify how fast things have been improving over the years. :) dave jacobowitz dgj2y@virginia.edu