What kind of virtual machine is BEAM (the Erlang VM)?

Question

From what I understand a virtual machine falls into two categories either \"system virtual machine\" or a \"process virtual machine\". It\'s kind of fuzzy to me where BEAM l

Answer 1

I assume that you've been reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine - under that terminology, BEAM is a "process virtual machine", just like the JVM.