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Date:      Wed, 21 Feb 2001 22:13:31 +0000 (UTC)
From:      naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: List of things to move from main tree to ports
Message-ID:  <971eib$akf$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010216153010.59690B-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20010220162408.A4211@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> <20010220141711.B83214@ohm.physics.purdue.edu> <20010221160912.A5780@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>

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Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Incidentally, the manual page says the br attribute is for a baud rate.
> I'm pretty certain that, in the technical sense of the word, it's
> actually talking about the bits-per-second rate.

The word "rate" already implies "per unit of time".  The word you
are looking for is simply "bit rate".

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de


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