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RE: More on serial ports



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Actually, because serial communications typically use 1 start bit and one 
stop bit,
sending a character (byte) actually takes 10 bits, rather than 8, so the 
19.2K chars
per second would be 192K bits per second.

    David

At 5/22/99 10:33 PM  Saturday, Ron Dawes wrote:
A 28.8 modem is 28,800 BITS per second.
Your 19,200 CHARS per second = 153,600 BITS per second.  Quite a difference.