On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 04:17 pm, you wrote:
> /SP means skinny DIP.  /SO is SOIC I believe, so you probbly wouldn't
> want that.  At the end of the data sheet for each processor, there is a
> section on Packaging Information, and you can look at the example
> packages to see what each suffix stands for.

Thanks Daniel I should have thought of looking at Microchips web site myself.
Maybe there is another PIC that has the same specs as the 16F876 but is
available in a standard DIP package?

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