> It was a pretty useful course just to learn the ins and outs of the processor architecture.
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>That's an excellent point. I only wrote a small amount of actual MASM and TASM production code, but the things I learned when sweating through assembly helped me tremendously when working with C.

Yes. Pointers don't hold any mystery when you've written assembly / assembler.

You're right, BTW, that the official name was assembly. Basic Assembly Language, or BAL, on IBM mainframes. But the word assembler was synonymous and widely used.