[Info-vax] Bare metal definition, was: Re: VMS port to x86

[Jerry Eckert]

On Mar 26, 3:19 pm, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-
Earth.UFP> wrote:
>
> In the embedded world, bare metal has a specific meaning. When your
> application is directly addressing the hardware it's running on
> without any operating system between the application and the hardware,
> the application is running in bare metal mode.
>
vtAlpha isn't targeted at embedded systems developers; I don't see why
one would expect the vendor to adhere to the terminology used in a
completely different market segment.  The term "bare metal", as used
by vtAlpha, accurately describes the nature of the product from the
host system administrator's perspective -- they provide a box with no
OS and install the application product.