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Re: (ASCEND) Who's got a Max 6000?



At 11:16 AM 8/12/98 -0400, Jim Howard wrote:
>At 21:24 1998/08/11 -0500, Marcel Brown wrote:
>>In our situation, we are about to outgrow a single Max 4048. Should we get
>>another 4048, should we add a 6000 to the 4048, or would we be better off
>>selling the current 4048 and replacing it with a 6000? I guess the main
>>issue would be price/performance, with the next issue being the complexity
>>of stacking multiple 4048's.
>
>I had heard early on in the first days after the 6000 was officially 
>announced that it could be "stacked" with 4000s, does this work yet?

Yes, as long as they are running the same software revision.

>If so, does the 6000 become the "master" of the stack and thus take 
>some of the processing load off of the 4000s? This alone would be
>enough for me to bring in a 6000 instead of more 4048s.

The "master" is a per-session function and is determined by which MAX the
first
call lands on.


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