Bygone? It's a fairly regular occurrence where I search for some Win32 API and end up on Chen's blog. I get what you are saying about articles like this one though. I can't imagine much new work is happening with the 8086 (or 8088 or '186 or '286 or ...)
I mean even w.r.t. Windows stuff, quite a large part of what he talks about is variations on "here's an interesting old anecdote from 1995" or "You know that thing that's totally useless now and doesn't matter ? Here's why we absolutely needed it in 1989."
