alt Hacker NewsThe Abit BP6 taught me so much about multithreaded programming. Programs that previously worked fine crashed instantly due to incorrect locking. It really forced me to think differently about concurrent programs.
After that I never found multithreaded programming particularly difficult. Challenging at times yes, but thanks to my newfound mental model not difficult.
I had those brass-looking cylindrical coolers[1] from Zalman, and the two of them next to each other was quite distinctive.
Had the motherboard for many years as a homelab server.
I bought a few more Abit boards after that, but the capacitor plague made me switch to Asus IIRC, and then they folded.
But the BP6 will forever be with me as a incredibly cool motherboard that did something unique in the consumer space.
[1]: https://www.cablesonline.com/soc370airrou.html (except brass finish)
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I had those brass-looking cylindrical coolers[1] from Zalman, and the two of them next to each other was quite distinctive.
Like this?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Abit_dua...
lots of cool 'engineering art' around heat-sinks and exchangers, for sure. Check out some of these shapes [0] , i'd love to have one on a shelf as a talking piece.
The coolermaster cpu sink i'm using now is big, but not particularly pretty.
0: https://toffeex.com/heat-exchangers , https://toffeex.com/heat-sinks
Nice, I worked at one of those mom and pop computer shops in the late 90's. I built the computers, and I even went with my boss (the shop owner) to those shows a couple times. From what I remember, the show scene was pretty well declining at that point, at least in our area. I still remember the TV ads, though. "SUPER VGA! CD-ROM!!"