If all the chips are 20 MHz, then why not just drop the lower speed grades from the product lineup? Like they do in the wintel pc market. Shudder. Ask an embedded manufacturer how they feel about components with 6-month lifetimes, sometime. Dropping products from a lineup is a a terrible thing to do, even if the new part is theoretically fully backward compatible. BillW -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! use mailto:listserv@mitvma.mit.edu?body=SET%20PICList%20DIGEST