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>I don't want to go to the AVR base because I have no development stuff for the series - right now the only thing I have to work with is the PIC MPLAB and the flash devices.

You have my sympathies :)

Still, even in the pic, it's workable. <VBG>
I did a command interpreter for a tokenized language in EE, plus a bunch of command routines, plus a full duplex bit-banged uart in an F84 once.

I'd take a hardware uart anytime though.
At least develop it that way at first, then you can go bit-banged if you must, and you're only debugging that layer.

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