| ▲ | guerrilla 4 days ago |
| > baud seems out of fashion, sym/s is pretty clear & unambiguous. Huh? Baud is sym/s. |
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| ▲ | eqvinox 4 days ago | parent [-] |
| Yes, that was the implication, but I've been getting the impression that using baud is kinda unpopular compared to using sym/s. |
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| ▲ | throwway120385 4 days ago | parent [-] | | A lot of people think that baud rate represents bits per second, which it only does in systems where the symbol set is binary. People got it from RS232. | | |
| ▲ | rbanffy 4 days ago | parent [-] | | IIRC, modems never went much beyond 2400 baud. Everything past that was clever modulation packing more bits onto a single symbol. | | |
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