wow, turns out CDC6600 is not that far from state-of-the-art in RTL logic even now! (ok, everybody moved from bipolar to field-effect transistors, but it's still impressive they built discrete logic computer that was ten times faster than ICs back then)
https://cpldcpu.wordpress.com/2020/02/14/what-made-the-cdc6600-fast/
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