If my college degree was focused only on technologies that were popular at the time, it would be worth significantly less today. Instead it focused on the conc

If my college degree was focused only on technologies that were popular at the time, it would be worth significantly less today. Instead it focused on the concepts and theory that are timeless. When picking an architecture to teach on the goal is to get the best one to give the quickest and firmest understanding of these concepts. With that the right answer is more likely to be something obscure, outdated or even fictional. The times I've had to write assembly in industry, it has only once been on a mainstream, modern ISA. More often than it is on something that would have never been taught in university (MSP430, PIC18 or other microcontrollers). The theory and concepts I learned in college made those easier to pick up.