Randall Hyde

Randall Hyde (2010)

Randall Hyde (born 1956)[1] is best known as the author of The Art of Assembly Language, a popular[2] book on assembly language programming. He created the Lisa assembler in the late 1970s and developed the High Level Assembly (HLA) language.

Biography

Hyde was educated and later became a lecturer at the University of California, Riverside.[1] He earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Science in 1982, and a Master's degree in Computer Science in 1987 - both from UC Riverside.[1] His area of specialization is compilers and other system software, and he has written compilers, assemblers,[3][4] operating systems and control software. He was a lecturer at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona from 1988 to 1993 and a lecturer at UC Riverside from 1989 to 2000.[1] While teaching at UC Riverside and Cal Poly, Pomona, Randy frequently taught classes pertaining to assembly programming (beginning and advanced), software design, compilers, and programming language theory.

He was founder and president of Lazer Microsystems, which wrote SmartBASIC[5] and ADAM Calc[6] for the Coleco ADAM. According to Rich Drushel, the company also wrote the ADAM implementation of CP/M 2.2.[7] He also wrote the 1983 Atari 2600 game Porky's while at Lazer, published by Fox Video Games.

Hyde is frequently seen on the alt.lang.asm newsgroup.[8]

Websites

Selected articles by Hyde

The Fallacy of Premature Optimization, ACM Ubiquity, 2006, Volume 7, Issue 24.

Books by Hyde

Modern books

Early Apple programming books

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 NNDB entry for Randall Hyde http://www.nndb.com/people/249/000125871/
  2. ↑ O'Reilly author profile http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1331
  3. ↑ http://www.drdobbs.com/184408724 "About the Author" in "The UCR Standard Assembly Language Library: For 80x86 assembly language programmers" by Randall Hyde March 01, 1992 Dr. Dobbs Journal
  4. ↑ http://www.drdobbs.com/184408319?pgno=3"About the Author" in "Object-Oriented Programming in Assembly Language: OOP applies equally well to assembly language and high-level language programs" by Randall L. Hyde March 01, 1990 Dr. Dobbs Journal
  5. ↑ http://www.sacnews.net/adamcomputer/09.html
  6. ↑ http://www.sacnews.net/adamcomputer/06.html
  7. ↑ http://www.adamcon.org/ann/9709.html Adam News Network Volume 97 Issue 09
  8. ↑ Google Groups listing of messages from a user named Randall Hyde posted to alt.lang.asm http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?show=more&enc_user=nWOfeRcAAABiDGVaPkcnvMYumB6gBmnX4Ua0QqlRnvDj9zBA-m7X2Q&group=alt.lang.asm
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