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Re:A Doom-like engine on the Raspberry Pi – 9800 lines of ba... by blackguardx on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @01:32AM (#9803124)
It is still technically called a breadboard. The other type of breadboard you are thinking of is a "solderless breadboard." Original breadboards date back to the days before printed circuits when people would stick component leads through holes drilled in a piece of wood or some other material and wire them together.
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Re:A Doom-like engine on the Raspberry Pi – 9800 lines of ba... by ZenoArrow on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @03:21PM (#9807784)
Isn't 'stripboard' the technical term for the soldered type of prototyping board (often known as veroboard in the UK)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripboard

I've only heard the term breadboard being applied to the solderless prototyping boards (and the old school point to point type).

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Re:A Doom-like engine on the Raspberry Pi – 9800 lines of ba... by kcsongor on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @08:11AM (#9804601)
oh, I didn't know that :) in the context I've heard it, people usually referred to the solderless one
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