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Every PCB is a “motherboard”, apparently
david77:
If I recall correctly IBM used the term "Planar", that seems fairly neutral.
tooki:
Apple has stuck with the terminology they came up with for the original Mac, which had two boards: the “analog board” (containing the PSU and the CRT driver circuitry) and the “logic board” (the motherboard). They kept the “logic board” name even on models without built-in displays, including desktop and tower models that use very ordinary topologies of a single board (with or without expansion cards) and a steel-boxed PSU. As far as I know, every single Mac model, even to this day, has used the “logic board” name for its main PCB.
mrburnzie:
Customs in Serbia always regards them as motherboards and sometimes even parts of computers... and when you get customs on a 2$ pcb from jlcpcb, it's quite fun!
Psi:
Motherboard / mainboard, meh, it just means the primary PCB in a product.
The only incorrect usage I can think of is if a product only has 1 pcb in it.
It has to be the mother or the main board within multiple boards.
tautech:
--- Quote from: xrunner on January 03, 2022, 12:49:02 pm ---
--- Quote from: eti on January 03, 2022, 04:05:01 am ---The term “motherboard” implies it had a daughter board, as many computers had. If it’s a PCB that can’t even HAVE that extensibility, the term is nonsense.
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Where are the "Father" boards? Don't both parents have rights! >:(
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Them called Mainboards now. :P
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