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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      92 months 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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        2 months ago

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

    • @T156OP
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      2 months ago

      Neat.

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

    • @DontTreadOnBigfoot
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      12 months ago

      Does it? All the connectors I’m thinking of on the motherboard have protruding pins, which seem a lot more phallic to me. Are they really considered the ‘female’ connectors?

  • southsamurai
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    152 months ago

    Wait until you run into stepmother boards.

    There’s two types. The first are the evil stepmother boards that make you do all the hard work.

    The other is the good stepmother board that gives you handjobs or takes your virginity

  • @Mango
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    72 months ago

    Noooo, boats cars and computers are girls and therefore have girl parts.