Randall Hyde Explained
| Randall Hyde |
| Nationality: | American |
| Alma Mater: | University of California, Riverside |
| Genre: | Non-fiction |
| Subject: | Technology |
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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. 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. 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. 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]
, 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
- Book: Hyde . Randall . September 2003 . The Art of Assembly Language . 1st . San Francisco . No Starch Press . 978-1-886411-97-5 . 8706071M .
- Book: Hyde . Randall . October 25, 2004 . Write Great Code: Volume 1 - Understanding the Machine . 1st . San Francisco . No Starch Press . 978-1-59327-003-2 . 8871388M .
- Book: Hyde . Randall . March 18, 2006 . Write Great Code: Volume 2 - Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level . 1st . San Francisco . No Starch Press . 978-1-59327-065-0 . 8871413M .
- Book: Hyde . Randall . 2010 . The Art of Assembly Language . 2nd . San Francisco . No Starch Press . 978-1-59327-207-4 . 2009040777 . 419869059 . 24814110M .
- Book: Hyde . Randall . 2020 . Write Great Code: Volume 1 - Understanding the Machine . 2nd . San Francisco . No Starch Press . 978-1-7185-0036-5 .
- Book: Hyde . Randall . 2020 . Write Great Code: Volume 2 - Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level . 2nd . San Francisco . No Starch Press . 978-1-7185-0038-9 .
- Book: Hyde . Randall . 2020 . Write Great Code: Volume 3 - Engineering Software . 1st . San Francisco . No Starch Press . 978-1-5932-7979-0 .
- Book: Hyde . Randall . 1992 . The Waite Group's Microsoft Macro Assembler Bible . 2nd . Carmel, Indiana . SAMS . 978-0-672-30155-1 . 92070084 . 180644556 .
- Book: Hyde, Randall . The Art of 64-Bit Assembly . No Starch Press . October 2021 . 9781718501089 . San Francisco . en.
Early Apple programming books
- How to Program the Apple II Using 6502 Assembly Language (1981)[10]
- p-Source (A Guide to the Apple Pascal System) (1983)
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Randall Hyde. www.nndb.com.
- Web site: Randall Hyde. www.oreilly.com.
- Web site: The UCR Standard Assembly Language Library. Dr. Dobb's.
- Web site: Object-Oriented Programming in Assembly Language. Dr. Dobb's.
- Web site: ECN - July/Aug. 1985.
- Web site: ECN - Jan./Feb 1985.
- Web site: Adam News Network volume 97 issue 09. www.adamcon.org.
- Web site: Sign in - Google Accounts. accounts.google.com.
- Web site: About Plantation Productions, Inc. . Plantation Productions, Inc. . 15 January 2017.
- Web site: Using 6502 Assembly Language by Randy Hyde | PDF. Scribd.
