When I took the compiler course in university around 2004/05 we were using some Motorola CPU iirc, definitely old but real. I have to say I don't remember a lo

When I took the compiler course in university around 2004/05 we were using some Motorola CPU iirc, definitely old but real. I have to say I don't remember a lot, and the only difference between my theoretical knowledge before "how does assembly language roughly look, how is the control flow and how do you use it" (mostly from trying to understand cracks and binary patches for nagscreens) versus using it on a real (emulated) thing was pretty small. And most of all, I remember zero of the details now. So yeah, maybe it would have helped you if you actually had fun, but to me it didn't really make a difference, because even back then writing assembly for speed in a modern processor was already so different that it didn't matter for the basics.