Randall Hyde (born 1956) is best known as the author of The Art of Assembly Language, a popular 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. 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. and ADAM Calc for the Coleco Adam. According to Rich Drushel, the company also wrote the ADAM implementation of CP/M 2.2. 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.

, 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.

Books

Modern books

Early Apple programming books

  • How to Program the Apple II Using 6502 Assembly Language (1981)
  • p-Source (A Guide to the Apple Pascal System) (1983)

References

  • Webster: The Place on the Net to Learn Assembly Language
  • Randall Hyde's homepage
  • The Rebirth of Assembly Language Programming by Dan Romanchik, Application Development Trends, October 13, 2003, an interview with Randy Hyde about assembly language
  • The Fallacy of Premature Optimization, ACM Ubiquity, 2006, Volume 7, Issue 24.