Not True, the F873, F874, F876, & F877 all have internal RC
 oscillator.  This is how it's set up with the In Circuit
 Debugger.

                                    Regards,

                                      Jim

On Wed, 02 February 2000, Jim Robertson wrote:

>
> At 12:39 AM 2/1/00 -0500, you wrote:
> >> How does the PIC get a clock source when the 'F' series chips don't have
> >> an internal clock?
> >
> >Since I don't know much about PICs yet, I don't know if I'm wrong or not but
> >if we're talking about the same thing, running the F series with a
> >crystal/resonator vs without, I've gotten them to run with nothing at all on
> >the osc pins.
>
> To date, only the 16F627 & '628 in the flash range come with an internal
> R/C oscillator. If you have any other F parts working without an oscillator
> then it is only noise or perhaps there is 666 marked on the chip somewhere.
> ;-)
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim Robertson
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