Unlike most areas of the technology business, 64-bit computing has somehow remained immune to the forces of commodity competition. Most 64-bit systems have historically been tied to proprietary ...

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Raspberry Pi has been using 64-bit processors for its tiny, low-cost computers since the organization launched the Raspberry Pi 3 in early 2016. But up until now the official Raspberry Pi OS has been ...

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AS PART OF its ongoing effort to “reinvent” its venerable mainframe line IBM dropped the other shoe on Monday, delivering its new age 64-bit mainframe operating system called zOS. zOS fully exploits ...