Why is there a mother-daughter thing in the first place?
“Help me stepbrotherboard, my circuits are stuck under the chassi.”
I can see your debug port.
Ouch, that’s my exhaust vent
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.
So daughter boards were earlier referred to as baby boards. Mother to baby seems a more obvious link than farther.
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.
Neat.
Wonder why the terminology changed. Maybe baby-board/childboard didn’t roll off the typewriter as well?
The sonboard:
And here we see the family together:
No.
Well, the motherboard has female connectors. Idk about the rest tbh.
wait till you hear about white and black boards.