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  From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
  To  : Leigh Hart <hart@dotat.com>
        David Lloyd <lloy0076@rebel.net.au>
  Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:51:00 +1000

Re: mbs M/bs xyz/s

At 10:26 PM 11/30/00 +1030, Leigh Hart wrote:
>
>G'day David,
>Larger units are sometimes used to denote high data speeds. One
>kilobit per second (abbreviated Kbps in the U.S.; kbps elsewhere)

Hmmm, how interesting. Bruce Nelson, now sadly deceased, used to insist
that it was kbps everywhere. 

His major failing was that he was American :-)

>is equal to 1,000 bps. One megabit per second (Mbps) is equal to
>1,000,000 bps or 1,000 kbps.


>Cheers
>
>Leigh
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Regards
-------
Richard Sharpe, sharpe@ns.aus.com
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Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
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