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bare metal

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  1. 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.
  2. Physical hardware, as opposed to virtualised.
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bare, metal.

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