Note: I'm having a lot of fun with Erlang. I'm very, very far from being an Erlang expert, but I'm having a lot of fun working on my little Erlang project. I d

Note: I'm having a lot of fun with Erlang. I'm very, very far from being an Erlang expert, but I'm having a lot of fun working on my little Erlang project. I don't read Armstrong's commentary as a criticism of the concept of an OS. I read it as the assertion that if you have specialized needs, the general-purpose code in most OS's is not-infrequently a poor fit for your application. Erlang still heavily relies on the hardware abstraction and device drivers provided by modern OS's, and still makes use of OS services, it just makes use of fewer of those services than some other software projects.