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| author | Magnus Lidén <[email protected]> | 2014-02-24 09:23:29 +0100 |
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| committer | Magnus Lidén <[email protected]> | 2014-04-02 16:11:32 +0200 |
| commit | 107b27ef809e4356ea258cbd820967ffb8fa0875 (patch) | |
| tree | 3e30cc0e08fb1001b004c2e62cc2e0f45d6b0945 /README.md | |
| parent | dc99e212fd346c1f2bb19a63b5f447e7169ff30b (diff) | |
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Correct and clean up documentation
The build and install documentation was not complete
and needed some restructuring.
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@@ -12,6 +12,15 @@ middle-ware to develop these systems. It includes its own distributed database, applications to interface towards other languages, debugging and release handling tools. +ERTS and BEAM +------------- +**BEAM** is the name of the virtual machine where all Erlang code is executed. +Every compiled Erlang file has the suffix .beam. The virtual machine +is sometimes referred to as the emulator. + +**ERTS** is the Erlang Runtime System where the BEAM, kernel and +standard libraries amongst others are included. + More information can be found at [erlang.org] [1]. Building and Installing @@ -57,7 +66,7 @@ Copyright and License > %CopyrightBegin% > -> Copyright Ericsson AB 2010-2012. All Rights Reserved. +> Copyright Ericsson AB 2010-2014. All Rights Reserved. > > The contents of this file are subject to the Erlang Public License, > Version 1.1, (the "License"); you may not use this file except in |