actually that is to say i know the difference, but i didn't have the time really to get exactly the right the details of 1200 baud vs. bits per second vs. bytes

actually that is to say i know the difference, but i didn't have the time really to get exactly the right the details of 1200 baud vs. bits per second vs. bytes per second vs. 7-bit vs. 8-bit and which component does which, if there's error correction, if it is based in 1000 or by 1024, etc, etc