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Re:A comment left on Slashdot by dahauns on Monday March 13, 2017 @08:08AM (#13857025)
> Neither of these are distributed systems

On the contrary - Erlang and its runtime were built from the ground up for use in distributed systems.

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Re:A comment left on Slashdot by falsedan on Monday March 13, 2017 @08:48AM (#13857279)
But it's not a distributed system: you use it to implement distributed systems. Each runtime is present on a single host & it provides some well-defined methods for RPC. Your application has to be aware of this to take advantage of it.
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