At 11:37 PM 2/16/2004 +0000, you wrote:
>Spehro,
>
>I am using the PCWH compiler and it supports all of the 12-bit, 14-bit and
>PIC18 parts.
>(I splashed out a bit, and it was worth it IMHO)

My mistake, I thought it was the Hitech compiler.

>(what was the but about the 17C ?)
>Jim

It's a fine part, lots of pins and so on but no flash version. If you
can use the 18F series, just forget it exists, IMHO.

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>[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Spehro Pefhany
>Sent: 16 February 2004 23:37
>To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
>Subject: Re: [PIC:] Not about Olin, but a PIC question :)
>
>
>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,
>
>Spehro Pefhany --"it's the network..."            "The Journey is the
>reward"
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