assembly language and reverse engineering

Hello,

I've done some programming in a few languages in the past, including
some assembly language. Not much asm, and it's been a while, so I'd
basically have to re-learn what I did know. I've recently become
interested in reverse engineering software in a Windows environment. I
know that understanding assembly language is key, so my question is
where to begin.

Most current books on asm seem teach you high level macro assembler
rather than the lower level, DOS style programming, and refer to DOS
asm as obsolete. Even Randall Hyde's site refers to 16-bit asm as
obsolete. It would seem to me though, that this would be what I would
want to start with, and then once I'm fluent, move on to the higher
level assembly language.

Am I right here, or should I start off with high level Windows
assembly programming?

Thanks in advance,

Spasm
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