At 03:17 PM 2/16/2004 -0800, you wrote:
>On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Jim Franklin wrote:
>
> > As I am trying to shoehorn the project into an 877A, would you guys out
> > there recommend using a second PIC (F84A or something - i'm using this as
> > it's in my parts box) as a slave to the "master" 877A.
>
>Two PICs invariably makes the software larger and more complicated,
>and makes the hardware more complicated and more expensive.  I would
>consider it a "last resort" solution, especially given the selection
>of PICs available with large code space and generous I/O counts.

Agree. *However*, the compiler that Jim is using won't handle the
18F parts, and there are no available (AFAIK) 16F parts with larger than
the 8K-word code memory that he's got now. A messy solution for a messy
situation? Of course, there's always the 17C, but..

Best regards,

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