Hi,
I tied the "master" PIC's CLKOUT to the "slave" PIC's CLKIN directly, and
both ran w/o any problems. 
I hope this helps.
Imre


On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, May Scott wrote:

> I can't imagine the two oscillators getting along very well, but I could be
> wrong.  The safest be would be to take the oscillator output (wired as per
> normal for one PIC), and buffer this through a 74HC14 or vaguely similar,
> and feed it's output to the clock in on the other PIC.  I've done this with
> the 8051 types, and it works a charm...
> 
> Till later,
> Scott.
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> 
>                 -----Original Message-----
>                 From:   William Ruehl [mailto:wruehl@SNET.NET]
>                 Sent:   Friday, 25 June 1999 10:11
>                 To:     PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>                 Subject:        Dual PICs one Xtal.
> 
>                 PICsters,
>                    What is the best way to have two 16F84's on the same
> board share
>                 the same crystal? Can the chips share the crystal in
> parallel? or is
>                 there
>                 a more elegant approach?
> 
>                 Bill Ruehl
> 
>