Why is there a mother-daughter thing in the first place?

  • @[email protected]
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    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.

    • NaibofTabr
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      930 days ago

      If 1 motherboard can make 1 babyboard in 9 months, can 3 motherboards make 1 babyboard in 3 months?

      • @NeoNachtwaechter
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        No. When you see 2 or 3 motherboards together, the are probably doing rasbian stuff.

    • @T156OP
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      Neat.

      Wonder why the terminology changed. Maybe baby-board/childboard didn’t roll off the typewriter as well?