> Peter Feucht wrote:
>> A general question about MCLR pins with newer PICs:
>>
>> They allow to use the MCLR pin as usual I/O-pin.
>
> No, they don't.  The MCLR pin can sometimes be configured as a digital
> input, but never a output as far as I know.
>

Following up on this (I know I need to read the datasheet...), since MCLR
is also used for Vpp on most (all?) chips, it seems that any other devices
on this pin would need to tolerate Vpp during in circuit programming.

Harold



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