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Subject: [Discuss] mainboard vs. motherboard
From: richard.pieri at gmail.com (Rich Pieri)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 13:01:39 -0400
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On Tue, 18 Jun 2024 09:42:42 -0700
Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:

> * I note they call it a "mainboard", not a "motherboard" as I did
> recently.

Motherboard and mainboard are mostly interchangeable terms. If one is
being ultra-pedantic, a motherboard has capacity for expansion boards
(daughter boards/cards) while a mainboard does not. But just as
pedantically, Frameworks' mainboards are motherboards: they have RAM
module sockets.

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