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Initial comment[edit]

Am I right in thinking that "Bare machine" simply means a computer without an operating system? Biscuittin (talk) 10:08, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have put this in the lead section. Biscuittin (talk) 15:25, 17 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Notability[edit]

I think notability has been established by the large number of articles which link to this page. Biscuittin (talk) 21:34, 16 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Failed?[edit]

"Although the bare machine approach failed" I don't think so. Our company makes simple 8-bit devices with no operating system. There are sophisticated toolchains (IAR embedded workbench, aVR studio, various debuggers) that allow you to write C or C++ code to targets with no operating system (eg reading and writing registers and i/o pins). In my opinion (and I'm not alone) if you want simple electromechanical control (eg no multimedia or tcpip) then its the best way to take complexity out and get super reliable functionality.Riceman0 (talk) 12:56, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, I agree that this claim by the article does not reflect reality; it seems to rely on the presumption that an OS is more effective in every context than OS-free is, which is simply not true. It also seems to imply that bare machine is a directly competing paradigm to use of an OS, which is only partly valid. I have removed it as it is also unsourced. —Quondum 22:30, 11 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Bare Machine vs Bare Metal[edit]

I'm not sure about the original meaning of the term "bare metal" but these days (2013/2014) I mostly hear it used (perhaps incorrectly) to describe physical rather than virtual servers. Thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:9:2700:31:4873:32C5:721C:2ADE (talk) 21:30, 27 February 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.4.249.253 (talk) [reply]

I'm seeing the same thing. "Bare metal" means a physical server, rather than a VM or cloud. --Moly 21:17, 15 September 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Moly (talk • contribs)

I agree that it (now) means either "code running on a machine without an O.S." or "running on a physical machine rather than a V.M. or (in the) cloud". This Wiki article needs updating with the latter! 82.21.133.132 (talk)

Bare Machine vs Bare Metal[edit]

The definition is correct only that recent hardware prototyping efforts with microscopic investments has the term being bantered about loosely. condor (talk) 16:51, 15 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]