(ASCEND) Re: 4000 Series Underpowered?

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Subject: (ASCEND) Re: 4000 Series Underpowered?
From: "T. D. Wolf" <direwolf@ritalin.shout.net>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 17:14:52 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <199807081809.LAA18992@max.bungi.com> from "owner-ascend-users-digest@max.bungi.com" at Jul 8, 98 11:09:23 am
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> From: "Kevin A. Smith" <kevin@ascend.com>
> Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 09:47:19 -0700
> Subject: Re: (ASCEND) 4000 Series Underpowered?
> 
> At 10:34 AM 7/8/98 -0500, Rob Myers wrote:
> >
> >Apparently the 6000 Series is the "no really, it can handle 4 PRIs and we
> >mean it" version of the Max, rather than the "no, even though it has 4
> >ports you should only use 2" Max 4004.
> 
> Just bear in mind that the MAX4000 platform was really designed about 3 to 4
> years ago. The MAX6000 is a "new" design (still based on the MAX4000, but with
> more memory and a faster processor). 
> 
> It's much like the Intel progression of x86 chips....just a few years ago the 
> 486 seemed like a Turbo engine compared to the prevalent 286 and 386
> machines. 
> Now Pentium II makes it feel like an old chugger....
> 
> 
> Kevin Smith			Ascend Communications...
> Customer Satisfaction	...where Network Solutions never end.
> 

But when I bought 486-based machines with two serial ports, I could
use them both up to the full rated speed simultaneously!  Nobody sold
me a machine with extra ports and then warned me not to use them.
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