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> That's correct, but hardly user friendly. T'put is absolutely ghastly - but
> semantically clear in my context.
>
> But joking aside, what about "Thr.put", "Thr put" or "Th put"? We also use
> things like "Tx Power", "Rx Power" or just Tx and Rx in the same context.
Know your audience. But I find it hard to believe that your audience would have trouble understanding kbps, Mbps, or whatever throughput measure applies. And I can't imagine that "Th put" or some such nonsense would be clearer to anyone than the widely accepted abbreviation for the actual throughput measure.
Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
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303-223-5111
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