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Hear me out: if it’s soooo important that serial connections not be measured in bytes (and I’m not sure it is), at least bring back “baud”!

Jun 19, 2024 at 02:36 UTC

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John Fouhy @repton.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 11:24 UTC

I was told once that 1 baud is one sine wave per second. Past 2400 it is too hard to squeeze more cycles onto a telephone wire so they started using amplitude to get more bits per baud.

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Peter Flynn @docum3nt.bsky.social
[ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 11:45 UTC

If you're talking serial connections, then it's actually 10 bits per byte because there is a start-bit and a stop-bit framing 8 data bits.

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