Check out this thread mentioning DosBox.
Yes, learning assembly anytime as a programmer can be helpful.
What you truly learn is an alternative form of thinking that will be useful when dealing with other languages, creating your own Domain Specific Language, debugging code in any language, solving complicated problems of any type.
Learning ASM is a great cause-and-effect teacher.
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