Before you decide to go off on a rant on me for how impractical it is, bear in mind that I have at least 3 different computers from 3 different eras (486, Pent II, AMD Ath) of the x86 architecture, and these things are doing nothing but sitting around gathering dust.
I wanted to tinker a bit with programming these chips and using them almost pseudo-MCU, just to learn a bit about how they're coded and a bit more about the architecture. I've studied it well enough to know key components of it, but never actually sat down and looked at an assembler.
Anyone got any resources for something like this? Again, these things are in 3 different stages of obsolescence and will continue to gather dust (and eventually be pitched). Might as well do some sacrificial, fun learning with them.