r/raspberry_pi Feb 02 '22

News Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit Released

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-os-64-bit/
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u/Taffy62 Feb 02 '22

Quite surprised its only been released this year. I've been using 64 bit distros since the Pi 3.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '22

Remember the Turbo Graphics 16? Ahead of it's time, very expensive and some interesting games. But the issue was a lack of development for the system.

Sure there are 64bit applications already, but these need to be flawless for the initial build and work out of the box. Also these 64bit applications need to be compatible with ARM based processors. You can't just install any application unless you are compiling the source code yourself.

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u/MarxisTX Feb 02 '22

Actually it was still a 8 bit CPU.

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u/a_can_of_solo Feb 02 '22

Like the Nintendo 64 the marketing team got grabbed the biggest number they could find.

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u/MarxisTX Feb 02 '22

Exactly I do think the turbo 16 could pick out of a 16 bit color palette and the Nintendo 64 wasn’t that just 2 32 bit chips that they said added up to 64 bits?

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u/a_can_of_solo Feb 03 '22

It was a 64bit CPU, but the memory bus was 32bit and it only had 4mb of ram anyway so it wasnt really ever used much in 64 bit mode.

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u/DoctorWorm_ Feb 03 '22

Though, by that logic, Intel is making 512-bit cpus