Randall Hyde is best known as the author of The Art of Assembly Programming, a popular book on assembly language programming. He also created the Lisa assembler in the late 1970s.

Randall Hyde was educated at, and became a lecturer at, the University of California at Riverside. His area of specialisation is compilers and other system software, and he has written compilers, assemblers, operating systems and control software.

At present (2005) he works for General Atomics.

He is frequently seen on the alt.lang.asm newsgroup.

Websites

• Webster: The Place on the Net to Learn Assembly Language
• Old Page at "University of California, Riverside"

Selected books by Hyde

• The Art of Assembly Language (ISBN 1-886411-97-2)
• Write Great Code, Volume 1: Understanding the Machine (ISBN 1-59327-003-8)
• Write Great Code, Volume 2: Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level (ISBN 1-59327-065-8)