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by bcaa7f3a8bbc 2514 days ago
> We also only had one color wire available, making non trivial difficult to follow and extremely difficult to debug.

This is no longer a problem today.

> using the most direct and shortest wire.

Unfortunately, it's often not even possible! A DIP-40 chip already occupies most columns, leaving only two or three columns for wiring. Impossible to wire the bus directly...