bare metal

== English == === Noun === bare metal (uncountable) (programming) A runtime environment where little to no abstraction is available: usually employing a low-level programming language, without access to any operating system facilities, and interfacing hardware directly. Synonyms: bare hardware, bare machine (computing) Physical hardware, as opposed to virtualised. Synonym: bare hardware Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bare,‎ metal. ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== Eric S[teven] Raymond, editor (29 December 2003), “bare metal”, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.