Possible, but not likely. IIRC, there were no library routines used in this, it was pretty basic "from the ground up" programming. Again, I didn't put any time into this after I decided to shelf it. I know that there are also some other restrictions on the 16F family related to the paging which can affect even the basic language constructs.Was playing with manchester examples and noticed that the routines call for the pic 16's is different from the pic18's. Most notably in the Man_send routine, in 16F pics its Man_send_byte and in the 18F pics its Man send.
Could the problem you encountered be a situation similar to this?
Frankly, for the little amount of extra money to get an 18F, it's not worth it to spend time with the 16Fs in this type of application. If you are going to be driving a T6963c, you'll probably need lots of flash and RAM, anyway. Unless it's going into a mass produced consumer product, it isn't worth the effort and compromises.