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Element 35

35●›
R
Run

Make the kept work go.

run · play · build · again

First known

Opened

≤1963CTSS: 'resume' restarts a saved program with arguments. MIT.

See also: Again isotope: Teitelman's REDO (≤1973); Star's AGAIN key (1981).

A terminus only. JOSS's Do (1963) and BASIC's RUN (1964) are unverified.

Someone opened the dated document itself. The source.

  • ReadingValue

Specimen № 35 — operate freely

Press go. Watch where it goes wrong, fix the route, and go again.

Fig. 35 — Run

000 readings · idle

Down the Invoke column

  1. it followsCCommand
  2. it targetsEqEquip
  3. it remembersRRun
  4. it connectsAsAssign
  5. it guessesTeTell
  6. it actsDlDelegate

Read down and Command gets heavier: each step is the same act, on a machine that keeps track of more.

Bodies

The act stays put while the hardware changes. These are some of the forms Run takes.

  • run
  • play
  • build
  • again