[rikthevik]

I learned asm starting with MIPS and then had the luxury of working at a place that was designing MIPS hardware. It was nice to be able to get into the assembler when some kernel modification wasn't working very well.

I have only good things to say about MIPS as a great place to learn ASM. The thing is, the better you understand how processors and pipelines work, the better you'll understand why instruction sets are the way they are.

If you want to learn a very bad assembler (for programmers) but one that's very to understand (for microcontroller designers), there's always 68HC11. How do two 8-bit registers and two 16-bit registers make you feel? (Probably like going to/from memory quite a bit :)