> 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?

I believe those are older chips that are now superceeded by newer chips.
You are probably right, there is no reason to use them in a new design.

> If none, why does Microchip continue to produce it?

I imagine because they are still selling.  Most likely they are going into
existing products that were designed a couple of years ago and are currently
in volume production.


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