[samkater]

We used it for our assembly course in 2013. A new professor joined the department the year after I took the class and he taught something else, so from then it depended who was teaching the course that year. It was a small teaching university (we had 5 CS grads my year) that was part of the math department (it has since moved to the school of engineering).

I never touched any form of assembly after that course so I don’t think it made a big difference one way or the other. My memory is hazy, but I think there might have been a personal connection between my professor and Knuth - they are roughly from the same generation.