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Does "motherboard" even make sense as a term? It's not like a motherboard gives birth to little baby boards that eventually grow up to be mother and father boa
by elihu 5y ago
Does "motherboard" even make sense as a term? It's not like a motherboard gives birth to little baby boards that eventually grow up to be mother and father boards of their own. It's just one of those weird words we accept because it's been part of a shared vocabulary for so long. I don't particularly see any harm in assigning a gender role to a hardware device, but I don't see anything is particularly gained either. "Mainboard" is fine.
- UberFly 5y agoAll the little components live on the Mother Board just like you live on the Mother Earth.
- chipotle_coyote 5y agoI'm fairly sure that "motherboard" came about as a term specifically for computer logic boards with slots that other cards -- "daughterboards" -- plugged into. It's very much from the 1970s era when we referred to "microcomputers", "minicomputers" and "mainframes". Granted, I'm a Mac user -- the last time I bought a "motherboard", I think it was a Pentium 4 -- and we tend to use the phrase "logic board" over here in Apple land, probably because, other than debatably the Mac Pro, we haven't had motherboards using the canonical definition for a very long time. At any rate, while I wouldn't go out of my way to squelch the word, I wouldn't go out of my way to insist on it, either. "Logic board" and "mainboard" both work and get the point across.
- kansface 5y agoPresumably, that would be Main Earth.
- johnnyanmac 5y agoWell, not at this rate. Hope our sub earths are habitual in the next century or 2.
- goatlover 5y agoThere's only one earth so far, so that wouldn't make a lot of sense.
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- olyjohn 5y agoNot all mothers give birth to their children. Seems like you're not being very inclusive to parents of adopted children.