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1 <refentry id="runb">
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2 <refnamediv>
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3 <refname>RUNB</refname>
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4 <refpurpose>BASIC09 run time package</refpurpose>
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5 </refnamediv>
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7 <refsynopsisdiv>
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8 <cmdsynopsis>
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9 <command>runb</command>
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10 <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>i-code module</replaceable></arg>
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11 </cmdsynopsis>
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12 </refsynopsisdiv>
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14 <refsect1><title>Description</title>
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15 <para>
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16 BASIC09 run time package
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17 </para>
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18 <para>
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19 Once one or more BASIC09 procedures are debugged to the programmer's
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20 satisfaction, they can be "packed" or converted permanently to the
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21 bytecode form.
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22 </para>
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23 <para>
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24 Packed BASIC09 procedures are in fact OS-9 modules, and the OS-9 shell
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25 recognizes them as I-code and passes them off to the virtual machine
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26 emulator RunB for execution. RunB avoids a great deal of the overhead of
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27 the typical interpreted BASICs of the day -- not to mention that one can do
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28 integer calculations where appropriate rather than doing everything in
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29 floating point -- so that BASIC09 programs run very quickly in comparison
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30 with interpreted BASICs.
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31 </para>
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32 </refsect1>
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33 </refentry>