One-off vs. One-of (was Re: CPU design at the gate level)

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Sat Nov 3 12:03:42 2001

Well, it's not that I've not travelled to both coasts (though I've avoided Texas
and Arizona) in the course of the last 30 years, but perhaps it's just the
insular nature of the Colorado front-range community. It's not a term I hear in
normal discussions of this sort around here. I asked one of the fellows who's
been working since the '70's at one of the old surplus electronics houses here,
and he's not accustomed to the term "one-off" though, like me, he does remember
hearing folks using "one-of" to refer to a single item project. He did know
what I meant, however.

Dick
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From: <blstuart_at_bellsouth.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: One-off vs. One-of (was Re: CPU design at the gate level)


> In message <001401c16415$61a86040$9cc762d8_at_idcomm.com>, "Richard Erlacher"
writ
> es:
> >Well, that's interesting for sure. Having been in engineering since 1963, I
> >have to say I've heard the term "one-of" countless times, since that's been
th
> >e
> [...]
> >It surprises me, of course, that a term could be so widely understood, yet
use
> >d
> >so seldom by those with whom I've worked, over the past three decades and
more
> >,
> >that I've never heard it used, even once, that I can recall.
>
> Facinating. Now I can't say I've been in engineering that long
> (only since about '80 except for a little goofing around in
> high school). However, my experience has been almost exactly
> the opposite. I've always heard and used one-off. It's been
> this thread that has introduced me to the term one-of.
>
> Brian L. Stuart
>
>
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