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From: nickel@prz.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: 16550 detection
Date: 30 Nov 1994 20:29:54 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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In-reply-to: thomas@melchior.frmug.fr.net's message of 29 Nov 1994 14:22:46 +0100

In article <3bf9v6$s2@melchior.frmug.fr.net>
thomas@melchior.frmug.fr.net (Thomas Quinot) writes:

> I. Stirling <is06@stirling.ac.uk> écrit :
>  
> > 38400 baud, as the serial link between the computer and modem is binary
> > (only 1 or 0) in this case bits per second = baud.
> 
> Hum, if I beg to differ, baud is afaik an unit of modulation speed, so
> one can't really use it speaking of a digital link (on which _no_
> modulation is used.)

(Well, just another AFAIK here:)

I seem to remember that the baud rate is the number of state
transitions per second. On a (binary) digital link you have two states
(high and low or whatever), so you can talk about a baud rate here as
well.

-- 
Juergen Nickelsen