Hacking Shindyapin

I’ve started to learn Erlang as one of the first tasks at my new job at Snooty Monkey. I am reading the O’Reilly “Erlang Programming” book. Here are some of my notes and questions as I read this book and try it out on my Ubuntu 10.04 system:

• Installation was fairly straightforward. I downloaded the source from erlang.org. Before starting the install, I ran sudo apt-get build-dep erlang to install necessary erlang dependencies. I followed the install instructions that came in the download; for better readability, I used the github page. 
• Some questions I had while reading Chapter 1 of the book:
  • What does the “soft” of “soft real-time systems” mean? Near real-time.
  • What is the run queue? Simple answer here.
• Chapter 2 forthcoming…