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motherboard


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  motherboard 
 
    (mobo)  The  main  {printed  circuit  board}  in  an 
  electronic  device,  particularly  a  computer,  which  may  contain 
  sockets  that  accept  additional  boards  ("daughter-boards"). 
 
  In  a  {personal  computer},  the  motherboard  contains  the  {bus}, 
  the  {microprocessor},  and  {integrated  circuits}  used  for 
  controlling  any  built-in  {peripherals}  such  as  the  {keyboard}, 
  text  and  graphics  display,  {serial  ports}  and  {parallel 
  ports},  {joystick},  and  {mouse}  {interfaces}. 
 
  (2000-08-10)