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>The main question I have is, the PIC documentation has lots of tables giving
>crystal speeds and some form of constant (I don't have the book in front of me)
>that gives a baudrate with a bit of error, the errors vary from 0% to several
>percent. How much can I get away with? I'd like to run the PIC as fast as
>possible as it is also going to be controlling a VFD and some buttons.

Figure the other guy gets at least half the error budget.

Otherwise, pick a crystal like 14.765 MHz that's an even baud rate divisor.

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