> TMR0 which updates the multiplexed display

Do you need to be updating that often ? Presumably using
TMR0 means a fairly short IRQ period, when a refresh rate
as slow as 100Hz would probably be fine. That would put
the update period outside of the 8ms max spec for an EE
write

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