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+<refentry id="runb">
+<refnamediv>
+<refname>RUNB</refname>
+<refpurpose>BASIC09 run time package</refpurpose>
+</refnamediv>
+
+<refsynopsisdiv>
+<cmdsynopsis>
+<command>Runb</command>
+<arg choice="plain">&replstart;i-code module&replend;</arg>
+</cmdsynopsis>
+</refsynopsisdiv>
+
+<refsect1><title>Description</title>
+<para>
+BASIC09 run time package
+</para>
+<para>
+Once one or more BASIC09 procedures are debugged to the programmer's
+satisfaction, they can be "packed" or converted permanently to the
+bytecode form.
+</para>
+<para>
+Packed BASIC09 procedures are in fact OS-9 modules, and the OS-9 shell
+recognizes them as I-code and passes them off to the virtual machine
+emulator RunB for execution. RunB avoids a great deal of the overhead of
+the typical interpreted BASICs of the day -- not to mention that one can do
+integer calculations where appropriate rather than doing everything in
+floating point -- so that BASIC09 programs run very quickly in comparison
+with interpreted BASICs.
+</para>
+</refsect1>
+</refentry>