While sitting on cloud 9, Kris Roebuck said to All something about 
    Baud and bps

 KR> Could someone explain to me the difference between baud rates and
 KR> bps.  I'm told that they have different meanings, but no-one will tell
 KR> me why. 

There really isn't a difference.  Baud is actually the name of
some guy who was in the datacoms field a while ago.  BPS stands
for bits per second.  Baud rate is just another way of saying BPS
rate.


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