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All the little components live on the Mother Board just like you live on the Mother Earth.

• chipotle_coyote 5y ago
  I'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 ago
  Presumably, that would be Main Earth.
  • johnnyanmac 5y ago
    Well, not at this rate. Hope our sub earths are habitual in the next century or 2.
  • goatlover 5y ago
    There's only one earth so far, so that wouldn't make a lot of sense.
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