Who is Randy Hyde and why does he write all this stuff about assembly language?

Randall Hyde was a lecturer at UC Riverside between 1989 and 2000 and Cal Poly between 1988 and 1993. He taught a variety of Computer Science courses including, as you can probably imagine, assembly language programming. Randy had written a couple of assembly language books prior to his stint as an instructor, including Using 6502 Assembly Language and The MASM 6.0 Bible. He was not particularly satisfied with the college textbooks for 80x86 assembly language when he first started teaching, so he created a set of lecture notes for his courses at Cal Poly that he entitled How to Program the IBM PC Using 8088 Assembly Language. Over the next decade, this set of lecture notes morphed into what is now entitled The Art of Assembly Language Programming.

Today, Randy Hyde writes books, is an embedded software engineer, writes device drivers, develops hardware, and lots of other fun things.

Randy's hobbies include writing musical parodies (see the Parodeities page here on Webster), photography, videography and video editing, SCUBA diving, writing, and maintaining Webster.

About Webster...

The Webster web site began around 1995 as a course support web server running on Randy's personal PC out of his office at UC Riverside. Originally, it hosted his assembly text and support software specifically for use by students taking his assembly course. As other instructors (and individuals wanting to learn assembly) discovered Webster, its reputation spread. Today, Webster is one of the most popular destinations for individuals wanting to learn 80x86 assembly language programming. Because of the high quality of the content found on Webster, the large number of sites that link to Webster, and the fact that Webster is generally one of the top three or four recommendations by various search engines, Webster remains a popular destination for those wanting to learn assembly language programming