IDA Pro was also something I remember playing around with at some point during this time period when SoftICE was also well known and used. Can't say I've done

IDA Pro was also something I remember playing around with at some point during this time period when SoftICE was also well known and used. Can't say I've done any low level debugging or attempts at reverse engineering since long ago though. Most work these days is abstracted so far above these layers you don't have to go down nearly as deep to muck around. Plus as an adult, many tasks these tools are useful for aren't in business interests (outside of security and driver development). It goes to show how much development has sort of shifted in the past 20 years.