Re: Postscript to HPLJII under UNIX?

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From: Joe Garvey
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1991 20:58

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In article <10145@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, rberlin@birdlandEng.Sun.COM (Rich Berlin) writes:
> Someone here nicely pointed out that I mixed up bits and bytes.  The
> correct performance numbers are more like
> 
> ((1000KB) * (10bits/byte)) / (19.2Kbits/sec) == 520 sec = 8.6minutes
> 
> The 10 bits per byte assumes a parity bit and one stop bit.

And seven bit data. You *must* have a start bit.

Perhaps start bit, stop bit and 8 bit data is an better way to say it.

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