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Date:      Wed, 20 Mar 1996 17:11:18 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        lehey.pad@sni.de, hackers@FreeBSD.org, isdn@muc.ditec.de
Subject:   Re: ISDN: "modem" or board? (Was: Microsoft "Get ISDN"?)
Message-ID:  <199603200641.RAA05914@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <3349.827292583@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Mar 19, 96 07:29:43 pm

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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying:
> 
> > Watch my lips. A B channel gives you 64,000 bits per second.  When you
> > add one start bit and one stop bit for every 8 bits, you end up with
> > 80,000 bits.  Bind two such channels together and you have 160,000
> 
> Your lips don't make any sense.. :-)  You SUBTRACT the start bit and
> stop bit, you don't ADD it dude!

Ah, sorry Jordan.  He's quite correct. 

64kb/sec of _data_ requires 80kb/sec on an async line, because you have
to _add_ start and stop bits to _make_ it async.

We've had this discussion before 8)

> 					Jordan

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