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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: On the Naming of UNIX Things Date: 21 Nov 1996 13:09:26 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 17 Message-ID: <571ka6$lev@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <55vhpf$q3o@mail1.wg.waii.com> <560146$t9c@mail1.wg.waii.com> <E0L92J.4tM@world.std.com> <kbibb.847601696@shellx> <1996111206190712643@[192.159.32.2]> <56ivb8$kbc@uwm.edu> <x7afsiyfqx.fsf@dumbcat.codewright.com> <56q3m1$8db@innocence.interface-business.de> <56q6nv$ch7@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> <56qdq7$k11@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.misc:26590 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1578 alt.folklore.computers:125000 ard12@eng.cam.ac.uk (A.R. Duell) wrote: > >>I thought 45.45 was only used in HAM radio (and might still be in use > >>there)? > > And, of course the reason 45.45bps was used in amateur radio was that > radio amateurs used surplus teletype machines - very few amateurs could > make something like a (mechanical) teleprinter at home ;-) Well, but i remember ham radio literature describing how to convert an industry-standard 50 Bd machine to 45.45 Bd, so i figure that the 45.45 must have been more usual in the US then. -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j