Ron Hochsprung

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Ronald R. "Ron" Hochsprung (born April 28, 1943) was an early employee and distinguished engineer of Apple. He has been associated with development of the Apple Lisa, Macintosh II, and Thunderbolt.
==Education==
Hochsprung received a B.S. in computer science from the in 1972. He was also a systems manager at the institute's computer center where he co-developed the coding language.Ron Hochsprung, LinkedIn. Accessed 2021-03-03.Ronald Hochsprung (CS ’72), Illinois Institute of Technology. 2016. Accessed 2021-03-03.
==Career==
In 1970, Hochsprung joined the in as a systems programmer.
===Apple Computer===
Hochsprung joined Apple Computer in 1980 as part of the Apple Lisa development team.Raskin Remembers "Computers by the Millions" by Jef Raskin, Making the Macintosh. Stanford University. 1980-04-03 / 1982. He became a distinguished engineer in February 1981 and later collaborated with Michael Dhuey as lead system architect of the Macintosh II, which was released in April 1987.Design News Engineer of the Year, DesignNews. Archived 2013-07-03.The Making of the Macintosh II by Steven Levy, Macworld. 1987-01. From 1990 to 1992, Hochsprung prototyped cards with Motorola 88100 and IBM processors for development of what would become the Mac 68k emulator as part of the adoption of the PowerPC architecture at Apple.Artifact details: PowerPC Macintosh prototype “Smurf” NuBus RSC processor, Computer History Museum, Accessed 2021-03-03.
As a member of the , Hochsprung contributed to hardware standards that became Open Firmware (IEEE-1275) and NuBus (IEEE-1296). Before retiring from Apple in October 2013, one of his last projects was with the team that developed Thunderbolt technology.
===After Apple===
Hochsprung retired to Los Gatos, California and travels extensively with his wife Lynda Bowlin. In March 2014, Hochspring endowed his alma mater, the College of Science at the with a gift of 2 million.Hochsprung Endows Computer Science Chair, Illinois Tech Today, Illinois Institute of Technology. 2014-03-03.
==References==
==See also==
*List of early Apple Computer employees
==External links==
*Ronald R Hochsprung at the ACM Digital Library
*Ron Hochsprung at ResearchGate
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