New tutorials? Don't they all date from when 32 bit registers were new, 16 bit registers mainstream, and MMX and x87 the new complicated instruction set additio

New tutorials? Don't they all date from when 32 bit registers were new, 16 bit registers mainstream, and MMX and x87 the new complicated instruction set additions? It would be certainly a smaller tutorial, but historical perspective might be valuable for understanding cruft layers of design decisions that made sense decades ago and addressed problems that have ceased to exist.