Cause many companys have already designed the C71 into their product.  Even if
the new part is a pin for pin replacement, they have already done all the
quality testing for the C71.  Altho the company would not have to go thru a
complete qual test again, it would still take the time for an engineer to
qualify the part as a suitable replacement.  This extra cost may not offset
the cheaper part price.

Drew Vassallo wrote:

> This particular line of PICs seems to be a little funky.  The 16C71 is
> _more_ expensive, has fewer RAM locations, no brown-out reset feature, and
> has less program memory than the others in the same line.  Any particular
> reasons to actually _use_ the 16C71 as opposed to the others?
>
> If none, why does Microchip continue to produce it?
>
> --Andrew
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