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by eftychis 2525 days ago
I have the same question. My first guess would be it was due to the reality of using the limited space and design process. Note the mention in the article about asynchronous logic and hand-wired gates. It probably seemed a better trade-off to keep the circuit as simple as possible if it would work fine and out of the box for a majority of the cases.