ASR-33 Data Format?

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Tue Mar 30 09:32:54 1999

At 04:27 PM 3/30/99 +1000, Huw Davies wrote:
>At 21:27 29/03/99 -0800, Sellam Ismail wrote:
>>On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Bruce Lane wrote:
>>
>>> Actually, ASR-33's ran at 110 Baud rather than BPS.
>>
>>Same difference.
>
>No, Baud and BPS are different. Baud is the number of signalling changes
>per second. Normally, each signal change gives one bit and then Baud ==
>BPS, but if you encode more than one bit per signal change then they are
>not the same.

It is also quite true of modern telephone modems, which are
packing several bits per signal change.

>My ignorance stands naked as the day I was born.

Hey! What kind of list do you think this is? :-)

- John
Received on Tue Mar 30 1999 - 09:32:54 BST