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echo: rberrypi
to: DENNIS LEE BIEBER
from: RICK SMITH
date: 2020-08-25 09:19:00
subject: True 64 bit vs 32 bit mod

Greetings Dennis!

25 Aug 20 09:39, you wrote to All about an urgent matter!:

 DB> On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 09:27:01 -0000 (UTC), Jim Jackson
 DB>  declaimed the following:

 >>
 >> Not true. 32bit RaspberryPI OS can use all the memory, but each
 >> process is limited, basically to 2GB(*). So if you need more for one
 >> process then you will need a 64bit OS. They are working on a 64bit
 >> version of RapberryPI OS, but I am not sure what stage it is at.
 >>

 DB>         There had been a link (which I can't find) to a 64-bit release
 DB> of the May 27 build, file name => 2020-05-27-raspios-buster-arm64.zip
 DB> (so not a NOOBS installer). I haven't had the nerve to try configuring
 DB> it (I've gotten used to doing NOOBS installs of Debian).

 DB> ****    just did a quick Google:
 DB> https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=275370

I found the 64bit beta for my 8gb pi but had to switch back it seems that I
could not get realvnc to work on it and I rely on vnc for my pi's

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 Rick Smith (Nitro)

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