>> Bob Ammerman wrote:
>>
>> >Make your unused ports outputs and don't tie them to anything.
>> >
>>
>> Make your unused ports inputs and tie them to Vcc thru 10K resistors.

At 09:05 PM 9/1/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Why add the component count for the resistors?
>

Not so bad when you use them networks with 9 bussed Rs.
4 of these will do a PIC40.

More importantly, when you code like I do ..........
[setting the tris bits wrong on random occasions].

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