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> > if you want to clear *all* the RAM, wouldn't a quick/easy way of
> > doing it be to tie one pin to MCLR to force a processor reset,
> > but at the same time, store the current address of the PC to
> > EEPROM before doing the reset, and have a startup routine that
> > reloads the PC to the value in the EEPROM?
>
>     Wow.
>
>     Where's the candle burning through the string, the
> spring-loaded
>     trapdoor through which the ball drops, the sprinkling can that
>     tips over and fills the boot with water, etc.?

That will come in will come in the mk.2 version.

In the mean time, it seemed like a viable option to me at the time,
but it appears that Microchip decided not to give us that option for
whatever reason.  I would have expected that a line labled MCLR
would, in fact, be a memory clear, but it is not.

- --Brendan

>     -Andy
>
>     P.S.  By the way, a processor reset doesn't clear the data RAM.
>

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