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Randall Hyde

b. 1956

The creator of High Level Assembly (HLA) language, the developer of the Lisa assembler, and the author of The Art of Assembly Language

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About Randall Hyde

Born 1956. Randall Hyde is an American software developer.

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)

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Born
1956
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Software developer
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Education
University of California, Riverside
Also known as
Randall L. Hyde

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Who is Randall Hyde?

the creator of High Level Assembly (HLA) language, the developer of the Lisa assembler, and the author of The Art of Assembly Language

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Randall Hyde was born in 1956.

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Randall Hyde is a software developer.

What nationality is Randall Hyde?

Randall Hyde is American.

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· Wikipedia: Randall Hyde

· Wikidata: Q7291560

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