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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-03-26 23:11, Jerry Eckert wrote:
> 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.

Cool. So I can just call my target audience "foobars", and then I can 
redefine known terms to mean what I want? Sounds like an excellent 
opportunity to sell non-stop servers, machines that produce gold, and 
oracle databases here...

	Johnny

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