Marketing...... If you want a stripped down model, to sell at a lower price, you delete the air conditioning, headliner, tinted windows, FM radio, and such. In the computer business, you sell the box with 16K of RAM and cassette basic; rather than 640K and MS DOS 1.0. The same applies with hardware-dominated products, you just do it differently. Remember the Pipe 25 diversification into PX, FX, etc? -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433 ++ Ascend Users Mailing List ++ To unsubscribe: send unsubscribe to ascend-users-request@bungi.com To get FAQ'd: <<A HREF="http://www.shore.net/~dreaming/ascend-faq">http://www.shore.net/~dreaming/ascend-faq</A>> or <<A HREF="ftp://ftp.shore.net/members/dreaming/ascend-faq.txt">ftp://ftp.shore.net/members/dreaming/ascend-faq.txt</A>> </PRE> <!--X-MsgBody-End--> <!--X-Follow-Ups--> <HR> <STRONG>Follow-Ups</STRONG>: <UL> <LI><STRONG><A HREF="msg04654.html">Re: (ASCEND) 48 modem limit on Max with 56k cards</A></STRONG></LI> <UL> <LI><EM>From</EM>: adamg@via.net</LI> </UL> </UL> <!--X-Follow-Ups-End--> <!--X-References--> <STRONG>References</STRONG>: <UL> <LI><STRONG><A HREF="msg04650.html">Re: (ASCEND) 48 modem limit on Max with 56k cards</A></STRONG></LI> <UL> <LI><EM>From</EM>: Stephen Balbach <stephen@clark.net></LI> </UL> </UL> <!--X-References-End--> <!--X-BotPNI--> <HR> <UL> <LI>Prev by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg04652.html">(ASCEND) Re-Assign dynamic IP Adress..</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by Date: <STRONG><A HREF="msg04650.html">Re: (ASCEND) 48 modem limit on Max with 56k cards</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Prev by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg04650.html">Re: (ASCEND) 48 modem limit on Max with 56k cards</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Next by thread: <STRONG><A HREF="msg04654.html">Re: (ASCEND) 48 modem limit on Max with 56k cards</A></STRONG> </LI> <LI>Index(es): <UL> <LI><A HREF="mail170.html#04651"><STRONG>Main</STRONG></A></LI> <LI><A HREF="thrd6.html#04651"><STRONG>Thread</STRONG></A></LI> </UL> </LI> </UL> <!--X-BotPNI-End--> <!--X-User-Footer--> <!--X-User-Footer-End--> </BODY> </HTML>