a machine that comes to mind is the xerox alto. Since curious marc worked on it the schematics are somewhere.
For me the bitslices save on chip count to implement the math, but you still have to do the instruction decoding and sequencing. This is what stopped me when I wanted to implement mil-std-1750 with ttl chips (just the schematic was not easy to design so I let that go).
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