I'm still waiting for my PIC-programmer to arrive, but I cannot sit
idle so I borrowed a couple of books at the library and started to
read about PIC-assembler, PIC-layouts etc.

There is one thing that struck me. For my project, I'm going to have 5
mechanical switches (or around there) and 3 dual 7-LED segments. Now,
how do you professionals "think" in a scenario like this, where the
microcontroller is supposed to control all switches and LEDs?

What I mean is, the big PIC I saw had 4 tristate A-ports (A0-A3 IIRC)
and 8 B-ports (B0-B7). Given the fact that each LED-segment requires 7
outputs, how would you design the circuit? Multiplexers between the
PIC and the segments?  I'm still unskilled - practically - with
mux'es, but there's never too late to learn.

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