Time out. Let's go back to the late 80s, when Erlang was written. It ran on Ericsson's switches. The platform needed to describe a unit of concurrency that prov

Time out. Let's go back to the late 80s, when Erlang was written. It ran on Ericsson's switches. The platform needed to describe a unit of concurrency that provided execution and memory isolation. Process fits that definition perfectly. Fast forward to today. Look at projects like LING, where the Erlang VM runs directly on Xen, without a traditional operating system. Processes in Erlang are 100% analogous to OS processes. Also look at something like Virtualbox or VMware. Is your process running in a VM less of a process than the OS process powering the VM itself?