I'm using a 16F88 and I need to use a Max485 chip for the main commincations, but I also need to reserve the ability to use a Bootloader via the Max232.

Can I run both these of the Hardware Serial Port without interfering with each other or is it better to keep them all on their own pins?

Next, normally I bit bang the 485 port so I can enable TX on the 485 chip, send out the data, then disable TX.

I'm thinking if I use the Hardware Serial port I would have to set the USART up for half duplex, then enble the TX, HSerOut, Disable TX. Is this correct?

Thanks for any insight.