Hey, I've been looking for a nice, simple oscillator to use in my projects.
My last one, a 16F84 project used a 4MHz full can style oscillator, didn't
use any caps on it, and it was a fairly time-critical project and it worked
just fine.

Now I'm on a 16F870, using a 20MHz CTS Reeves MXO45 1/2-can oscillator.
Again w/o caps, testing my busy waits shows it to be very accurate (not a
perfect test, but still).  I'm wondering what the downside to this is.
Anyone care to shed some light on the adv/disadv of doing this?

I'm assuming the caps are for voltage stability?  So in my final build I'll
probably toss them in.  But how necessary are they really?

nick@veys.com | www.veys.com/nick

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