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    <title>Introduction</title>
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    <date>2016-05-22</date>
    <rev>PA1</rev>
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  <section>
    <title>Scope</title>
    <p>The Erlang Runtime System Application, ERTS, contains
      functionality necessary to run the Erlang system.</p>
    <note>
      <p>By default, <c><![CDATA[ERTS]]></c> is only guaranteed to be
        compatible with other Erlang/OTP components from the same release as
        <c><![CDATA[ERTS]]></c> itself.</p>
      <p>For information on how to communicate with Erlang/OTP components
        from earlier releases, see the documentation of system flag
        <seecom marker="erl#compat_rel"><c>+R</c></seecom> in <c>erl(1)</c>.
      </p>
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  <section>
    <title>Prerequisites</title>
    <p>It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Erlang programming
      language.</p> 
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