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Raspberry Pi 3 has 64-bit CPU, but 32-bit Raspbian OS (for now)

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Eric Brown
Mar 4, 2016

Hacker friendly SBCs like the Raspberry Pi 3 and Odroid-C2 may have 64-bit CPUs, but for now their default Linux OSes remain at 32-bits.

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Eric Brown

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