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baud
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/bawd/ , n. [simplified from its technical meaning] n. Bits per second.
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Hence kilobaud or Kbaud, thousands of bits per second. The technical meaning
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is level transitions per second ; this coincides with bps only for two-level
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modulation with no framing or stop bits. Most hackers are aware of these
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nuances but blithely ignore them. Historical note: baud was originally a
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unit of telegraph signalling speed, set at one pulse per second. It was
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proposed at the November, 1926 conference of the Comit Consultatif
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International Des Communications Tlgraphiques as an improvement on the then
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standard practice of referring to line speeds in terms of words per minute,
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and named for Jean Maurice Emile Baudot (1845-1903), a French engineer who
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did a lot of pioneering work in early teleprinters.
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