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Ken Shirriff

The chip didn't have multiplication or division in hardware, but it had a barrel shifter to quickly multiply or divide by a power of 2. The compiler for the chip is very unusual. Instead of normal code, you define poles and zeros and the compiler builds the code to implement the desired filter. 6/7

A diagram from the manual for the SPAC20 Compiler showing how poles are specified and then the compiler displays the filter response using ASCII art.
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