Michael writes:
...
> Moving even further into the camp of evil, I supported the bastardization of
> the word "baud" into "bits per second".  But it seems the communications
> priests were more diligent in their pogroms, and the villagers were forced to
> adopt the phrase "bits-per-second" (or "bps") instead.  We use that one
...

I agree...at least with baud, I know that NNNN baud is (roughly) NNNN bits
per second.  With "bps" I have to ask: bits or *BYTES* per second?

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