On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Dwayne Reid wrote:

> At 07:27 PM 6/1/03 -0500, Dale Botkin wrote:
>
> >Now back to trying to figure out just exactly WHY Microchip could possibly
> >have decided to omit the weak pull-up for GP3 on the 12F629/675...  sigh.
>
> I spent some time on the phone with Microchip tech support discussing this
> issue - I was finally told that it was because of the die
> shrink.  Apparently, the weak pull-ups can't withstand the application of
> Vpp to the pin.

Must be unique to FLASH parts or that die or sump'n, they've done it
before.  Aggravating as hell.

Dale
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