speaking of the f84 being easier to use cause it's simpler:

Is there a table somewhere that lists, for each PIC, the
default (power-up) usage of each pin?  This doesn't seem
to be very obvious from the data sheets (or I'm missing
something - it took me an embarassingly long time to figure
out which peripheral was interfering with using some of
the GPIO pins on a 16F675 as outputs (the data sheet is
pretty clear when you have to turn off a peripheral or
change tris to switch between digital and analog inputs,
but it's not so clear which special functions interfere
with digital output...)

Thanks
Bill W

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