Randall Hyde

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Randall Hyde
Born1956 (age 67–68)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Riverside
GenreNon-fiction
SubjectTechnology
Website
www.randallhyde.com

Randall Hyde (born 1956)

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 the SmartBASIC interpreter[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 has made many posts to the alt.lang.asm

newsgroup in the past.[8]

As of 2017[update], Hyde operates and is president of Plantation Productions, Inc., a Riverside, California corporation providing sound, lighting, staging, and event support services for small to medium-sized venues, for audiences of 10 to 5,000 people.[9]

Books

Modern books

Early Apple programming books

References

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