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Re:An Experimental Course on Operating Systems by tlent on Saturday January 13, 2018 @02:34PM (#16140903)
Would it be possible to use the much cheaper Raspberry Pi Zero W instead of the 3?
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Re:An Experimental Course on Operating Systems by wolfgke on Sunday January 14, 2018 @07:06AM (#16143924)
To quote from the slides (Jan 8): https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs140e/notes/lec1/slides.pdf Slide 3:

"A modern approach

- Multicore, 64-bit ARMv8 platform.

- Modern programming languages and tools."

The Raspberry Pi Zero W does not support 64 bit mode, since it uses a BCM2835 instead of a BCM2837. Even more: the BCM2835 does not even support ARMv7 instructions (only ARMv6).

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