>Actually, when I look at the osc. pins on my 16C84 w/ 4MHz xtal and two
caps with a 200MHz >scope, I see a very perfect sine wave. The xtal can't
oscilate in a square wave fasion, since >its' not resonant at the
additional harmonics needed to cause the square wave shape. I also >think
that the inverter is operating in its linear region, thus not swinging from
rail to >rail >suddenly anyway. My scope sees a 4V p-p sine on my pic.

One little correction to my own mail:

 I actually see a 5V p-p sine wave on one of the osc pins. It is also very
slightly distorted (not flat-topping, rather the slope is a bit incorrect
at around the 1 and 4 volt points). The other pin shows the undistorted 4V p-p

Sean



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