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--- bare_metal [2015/11/23 14:25] – [Strategies] More on OS-like libraries. Traumflug
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 ======What is 'Bare Metal'?======
-Your usual PC runs an operating system (OS). Often used OSs include //Linux//, //BSD//, //OS\_X//, //Android//, //Windows// and many others. Main point of an OS is to cover hardware abstraction. As a result, an application no longer tells the hardware which bits to change to what, it simply tells the OS to write a file. Advantage of this is, the 'write to file' command is always the same for a given OS, no matter which hardware OS and application run on.
+Your usual PC runs an operating system (OS). Often used OSs include //Linux//, //BSD//, //OS\_X//, //Android//, //Windows// and many others. Main point of an OS is to cover hardware abstraction. As a result, an application no longer tells the hardware which bits to change to what, it simply tells the OS to write a file. Advantage of this is, the 'write to file' command is always the same for a given OS, no matter which hardware the application runs on.
 'Bare metal' means that there is no operating system, no standard library, no user management, much less a user privilege system. Whatever is done to hardware, the application does it directly (and has to know on how to do it).

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