> I've seen quite some more reliable design put an external IC, a pull-up,
> a 10nF capacitor to ground. 


External reset IC - I shall be using one of those in future. PIC12F683, POR
occurs at <200mV. BOR doesn't operate reliably below approx. 2V. Between the
two values it can all go a bit awry :-(

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