I've always interpreted it as running code directly on the processor with no OS. I made a "baremetal" bitcoin miner for the original raspberrypi, until it burne

I've always interpreted it as running code directly on the processor with no OS. I made a "baremetal" bitcoin miner for the original raspberrypi, until it burned up the chip(and i learned why OSes are important). I guess it's been updated to mean an application running on the native OS.