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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
+
+<chapter>
+ <header>
+ <copyright>
+ <year>2017</year>
+ <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
+ </copyright>
+ <legalnotice>
+ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License.
+
+ </legalnotice>
+
+ <title>Introduction</title>
+ <prepared></prepared>
+ <responsible></responsible>
+ <docno></docno>
+ <approved></approved>
+ <checked></checked>
+ <date></date>
+ <rev></rev>
+ <file>introduction.xml</file>
+ </header>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Scope</title>
+ <p>The Kernel application has all the code necessary to run
+ the Erlang runtime system: file servers, code servers,
+ and so on.</p>
+ <p>The Kernel application is the first application started. It is
+ mandatory in the sense that the minimal system based on
+ Erlang/OTP consists of Kernel and STDLIB. Kernel
+ contains the following functional areas:</p>
+ <list type="bulleted">
+ <item>Start, stop, supervision, configuration, and distribution of applications</item>
+ <item>Code loading</item>
+ <item>Logging</item>
+ <item>Error logging</item>
+ <item>Global name service</item>
+ <item>Supervision of Erlang/OTP</item>
+ <item>Communication with sockets</item>
+ <item>Operating system interface</item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Prerequisites</title>
+ <p>It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Erlang programming
+ language.</p>
+ </section>
+</chapter>
+
+