> I would like to use both SPI and RS-232 on a 18 or 28 pin PIC.  Looking at
> the data sheets of a number of PICs the pins for these peripherals appear to
> overlap.

Which PICs are you talking about?

Every PIC I've dealt with (being human I can only experience a small
part of their product line) has the serial pins totally separate from
the SPI/I2C pins).

> Can SPI and serial be used concurently?  I sure hope so, but can't figure
> out how.

I've done it many times.
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