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Re: (ASCEND) P75: Old vs. New?




 I was underthe impression that the New Pipe's had a new processor? Is
this not correct?

Jason


On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Jim Howard wrote:

> At 17:56 09/24/1997 -0400, Mark Eissler wrote:
> >On 9/24/97 03:53, Lester Waters scribbled: 
> >>Apologies if this has already been answered, but what are the
> >>feature differences between the old and new P75 (beside the switch)?
> 
> >The new P75 shares it's circut 
> >board with the new P50 (which is upgradeable to a P75 with a hash 
> >code--the POTS ports are covered on the new P50s), whereas the old P75 
> >and the old P50 were completely different units. 
> 
> mostly true... 
> anyone who has opened up a older p75/p130 can tell you that 
> the main board is labeled "P50 w/ POTS" and that the "POTS" 
> or the T1-CSU are a daughter cards plugged onto the mainboard.
> (not saying that i've opened them, that might void my waranty ;^)  )
> 
> if you remove the card you essentialy "downgrade" to a p50.
> there may even be genuine p50's using the same board
> that could have a daughter card added, 
> but I've never investigated that part...
> 
> 
> >Maybe the new P75 has a greater amount of memory? That would allow bigger 
> 
> yes, the new models have larger RAM  (2Mb -> ?3Mb?)
> and larger FLASH (1Mb -> 2Mb)
> 
> -Jim H
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