If I remember correctly, Erlang was designed for fault-tolerant telephone switches and there were always two of them (the switches) in one box, because the syst

If I remember correctly, Erlang was designed for fault-tolerant telephone switches and there were always two of them (the switches) in one box, because the system had to cope with even hardware failures. So Erlang is pretty much designed to deal with systems distributed on different machines, it's nice behaviour on modern multicore machines is just a byproduct of that.