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-This Chifir computer was the definition of a universal [[virtual machine]] designed to host and archive projects. The example project to be hosted on the vm was [[Smalltalk]]-72, but its design did not reflect how this was to be done, and the lack of I/O made it unclear that it would even be a viable target for the system.
+This Chifir computer is the definition of a universal [[virtual machine]] designed to host and archive projects. The example project to be hosted on the vm was [[Smalltalk]]-72, but its design did not reflect how this was to be done, and the lack of I/O made it unclear that it would even be a viable target for the system.
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+## Relevance to permacomputing
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+The paper from which this specification originates considers issues of [[digital preservation]] and [[digital obsolescence|obsolescence]].
 
 * [The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015](www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2015004_cuneiform.pdf)
 * [Implementation](https://paste.sr.ht/~rabbits/b23e80eaf675c1b704bc704577e503cfd0d8f474), written in [[C]]