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 Currently runs a tiny subset of Lisp. To build and run it from the top-level:
 
-```
-./translate shell/*.mu
-qemu-system-i386 disk.img
+```sh
+$ ./translate shell/*.mu
+$ qemu-system-i386 disk.img
 ```
 
 You can type in expressions, hit `ctrl-s` to see their results, and hit `Tab`