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		Narishma on Jan 5, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Easy 6502 – How to get started writing 6502 assemb... Raspberry Pi is ARM, not AVR. And it's not really comparable to an Arduino since it runs a full OS.

Elrac on Jan 11, 2017 [–]

Oops! I stand corrected. But no, the Raspberry Pi does not necessarily run a full OS. It can, and it certainly makes sense to do that, but it's very possible to run a standalone boot-loaded program on a Raspberry, just as OSes like FemtoOS will run on AVR architecture.

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