Hyde was educated, and later became a lecturer, at the University of California, Riverside.

[1] His area of specialization is compilers and other system software, and he has written compilers, assemblers,[3][4] operating systems and control software.

[1] 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.

According to Rich Drushel, the company also wrote the ADAM implementation of CP/M 2.2.

[8] As of 2017[update], 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.