On 27/04/2018 22:56, ray carter wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:44:02 +0000, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
>
>> In article ,
>>  Gareth's Downstairs Computer
>>   writes:
>>> Which 64 bit OS is recommended for the Pi3, for I cannot locate such on
>>> the wiki?
>>>
>>> Perhaps NOOBS runs in the 64bit manner but in the AArch32 option?
>>
>> Why do you want a 64 bit build?
>
> Sometimes you have to do it just because it's there!
>

Yes, computerisation now pervades all sorts and conditions
of men, and who is to say that one person's interest is not
relevant to that person?

As someone with a background in electronics, from Drude,
through semiconductor to logic gates, TTL, SSI, MSI, LSI,
PDP8, PDP11, 6502, 6303, 8086, 80186, 80386, all with
some form of assembly language involvement in my
professional career, low-level programming is my forte,
and now retired, it interests me to want to flex my
intellectual muscles on a 64 bit architecture, and the
Pi3 is a relatively cheap way of doing that. In any
case, it'll give experience, currently missing, on the
ARM processors.

Computers are a complex machine to be understood and
enjoyed for their own sake, and not to be used for
application, and a pox on the C language that dissembles
the real underlying machine!  :-)

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