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jacquesm
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The MOnSter 6502: transistor-scale replica of clas...
That must have been several boards at least, even at TTL scale integration and using components like adders and decoders as the building blocks.
jandrese
on Sept 12, 2018
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There is a FAQ on the page that explains that a 68k built in the same way would require a board 1.7m square.
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Which is not practical for board size, so it most likely would have been some kind of backplane with plug-in boards for the various main sections of the CPU.
utopcell
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..or much smaller in a 3D setup.
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