At 20:11 3/09/97 -0400, you wrote:
>is it possible to write some code that will generate a set of random numbers?
>I would like to randomly turn ON and OFF portb outputs on a 16C84.

 Hello, I've found that the RAM content of the 16c84 is somehow ramdom at
start-up, so xor-ing the 36 values you can get a seed, then you can use a
rutine like this one:

       ; random rutine: it get a random seed in SEED1 and
         ; store another random number also in SEED1

RANDOM  rlf     SEED1,W
        rlf     SEED1,W
        btfsc   SEED1,4
        xorlw   1
        btfsc   SEED1,5
        xorlw   1
        btfsc   SEED1,3
        xorlw   1
        movwf   SEED1
          return

Regards,

  Adolfo.




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