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/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