1 Introduction
1.1 Scope
The Erlang Runtime System Application, ERTS, contains functionality necessary to run the Erlang system.
Note
By default, ERTS is only guaranteed to be compatible with other Erlang/OTP components from the same release as ERTS itself.
For information on how to communicate with Erlang/OTP components from earlier releases, see the documentation of system flag +R in erl(1).
1.2 Prerequisites
It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Erlang programming language.