> I'm surprised at this! With all the professionals
> on this list, I have become used to the "never go
> outside the spec" attitude, like never exceeding
> clock frequency etc. I really don't like the idea

Is it really that different to driving directly into the base of a transistor?
The impression I have is most people on this list would do that to drive a relay
or other high current load without a resistor between the output from the PIC
and the base of the transistor - we get enough messages on the list about
reading back the port state when doing this.

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