This reminds me of the days when all of a sudden win32 programming in assembly became hip enough, probably as a response to the increasing size of shareware dow

This reminds me of the days when all of a sudden win32 programming in assembly became hip enough, probably as a response to the increasing size of shareware downloads ('twas the dark time of MFC). Combined with early Palm Pilot 68k programming, those were the last hurrahs of non-retrocomputing asm I can remember.