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A short history of the VIPER microprocessor, designed in the 1980’s with the aim of achieving a formal verification for the correctness of its design, for use in security and safety critical applications. Whilst arguably technically successful, it wasn’t commercially, and this led to legal action over the extent to which the formal verification had been achieved. The action required the establishment of a legal definition of ‘mathematical proof’