

Īs of 2017, 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. Hyde has made many posts to the newsgroup in the past. He also wrote the 1983 Atari 2600 game Porky's while at Lazer, published by Fox Video Games. According to Rich Drushel, the company also wrote the ADAM implementation of CP/M 2.2. He was founder and president of Lazer Microsystems, which wrote the SmartBASIC interpreter and ADAM Calc for the Coleco Adam. 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 a lecturer at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona from 1988 to 1993 and a lecturer at UC Riverside from 1989 to 2000. His area of specialization is compilers and other system software, and he has written compilers, assemblers, operating systems and control software. 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.

Hyde was educated, and later became a lecturer, at the University of California, Riverside. He created the Lisa assembler in the late 1970s and developed the High Level Assembly (HLA) language. Randall Hyde (born 1956) is best known as the author of The Art of Assembly Language, a popular book on assembly language programming.
