At 08:09 PM 8/15/97 -0400, you wrote:

>Microchip says the problem occurs when the serial port is put in the
>"high speed" mode.  In this mode the baud rate is 16x the serial port
>clock.  In the normal mode the baud rate is 64x the serial port clock.
>If you are able to choose the PIC crystal frequency, then you can likely
>find one which will match the PC baud rate without needing to use the
>high speed mode.  Someone else may know better than I do but I thought
>the UARTs in all the PICs that have them are the same, that is they will
>all have the problem.

You are right about what the problem is, however, not all pics have the problem.
The erratum was fixed in the 16C67,16C77, as well as a few others (I don't
offhand remember which ones exactly).

Sean