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Mueen Nawaz wrote:
> Think modems (the phone ones). In the old days, it was all baud. 1
> baud is 1bit/s. It probably has stuck since.
Technically, one baud is one symbol per second. A 9600bps modem is a 2400
baud modem with 2 symbols per baud.
> Incidentally, I think with old modems, sending 1 byte didn't entail
> sending 8 bits. I think they had two error correcting bits, making
> sending 1 byte the same as 10 bits. If there's truth to that, I can see
> why it'd make sense to specify bits.
One or two start bits to synchronize, one stop bit (or sometimes 1.5 stop
bits) to process, and perhaps a parity bit. No error correcting bits, but
parity might give you error detection if you're lucky.
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