Lots of us built what you would call a RISC processor out of 74181/Am2901 bit-sliced processors back in the day. Mostly because we didn't have the microcode sk

Lots of us built what you would call a RISC processor out of 74181/Am2901 bit-sliced processors back in the day. Mostly because we didn't have the microcode skills to do what the pros did on things like the VAX or DGs.