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echo: aust_modem
to: Ray Mcconnell
from: John Piper
date: 1996-10-12 21:16:30
subject: Baud and bps

On Thursday, October 10 1996, Ray Mcconnell wrote to Kris Roebuck ...

 RM> BPS stands for Bits Per Second. As you probably already know there are
 RM> 8 bits to 1 byte. Bits are binary. I thought BPS and baud rates were
 RM> the same. They both show how many bits your modem can send in a second.

Not quite, Ray. Baud rate = the number of SIGNAL CHANGES PER SECOND. One or
more bits may be tranmitted per Baud, ergo, Baud and BPS are not synonymous
terms, even though they can have the same value at some speeds.

John (japp{at}mpx.com.au)

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