Your argument is one of convenience, mine is one of education/understanding... Sure, one could use every computer program in existence without becoming a compu

Your argument is one of convenience, mine is one of education/understanding... Sure, one could use every computer program in existence without becoming a computer programmer and gain useful function from them, and this would not be wrong in any way -- but there are also those of us who wish to understand things at a very deep level... There are those of us who not only want to understand how computer programs work -- but how ISA's work, how the underlying hardware works, everything down to the substructures, the the adders, the logic gates, the flip-flops, the transistors, everything... And that list includes (but is not limited to!)... x86 microcode... Or more specifically, microcode in general...