T156@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 years agoIf there are motherboards and daughterboards, are there fatherboards and sonboards?message-squaremessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up137arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up132arrow-down1message-squareIf there are motherboards and daughterboards, are there fatherboards and sonboards?T156@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 years agomessage-square9fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareGetOffMyLan@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·edit-22 years 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-22 years agoNeat. Wonder why the terminology changed. Maybe baby-board/childboard didn’t roll off the typewriter as well?
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?