T156@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-211 days agoIf there are motherboards and daughterboards, are there fatherboards and sonboards?message-squaremessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up127arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up124arrow-down1message-squareIf there are motherboards and daughterboards, are there fatherboards and sonboards?T156@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-211 days agomessage-square11fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareGetOffMyLan@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·edit-211 days ago The observant will have noticed one of these early uses of mother-board are in conjunction with baby-board, and not today’s common daughterboard. A mother-baby relationship seems more appropriate in this context than mother-daughter. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10386/why-motherboard-is-used-to-refer-to-main-board-of-computer So daughter boards were earlier referred to as baby boards. Mother to baby seems a more obvious link than farther.
minus-squareT156@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-211 days agoNeat. Wonder why the terminology changed. Maybe baby-board/childboard didn’t roll off the typewriter as well?
minus-squareNaibofTabr@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 days agoIf 1 motherboard can make 1 babyboard in 9 months, can 3 motherboards make 1 babyboard in 3 months?
minus-squareNeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·edit-211 days agoNo. When you see 2 or 3 motherboards together, the are probably doing rasbian stuff.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10386/why-motherboard-is-used-to-refer-to-main-board-of-computer
So daughter boards were earlier referred to as baby boards. Mother to baby seems a more obvious link than farther.
Neat.
Wonder why the terminology changed. Maybe baby-board/childboard didn’t roll off the typewriter as well?
If 1 motherboard can make 1 babyboard in 9 months, can 3 motherboards make 1 babyboard in 3 months?
No. When you see 2 or 3 motherboards together, the are probably doing rasbian stuff.