Ron Hochsprung

Ronald R. "Ron" Hochsprung (born April 28, 1943) was an early employee and distinguished engineer of Apple.

Education
Hochsprung received a BS 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.

Career
In 1970, Hochsprung joined the in  as a systems programmer.

Apple Computer
Hochsprung joined Apple Computer in February 1981, where he worked on the Apple Lisa. He collaborated with Michael Dhuey as a system architect of the Macintosh II, which was released in April 1987. From 1990 to 1992, Hochsprung designed cards with Motorola 88100 and IBM prototypes for development of what would become the Mac 68k emulator as part of the adoption of PowerPC architecture at Apple.

As a member of the, Hochsprung contributed to hardware standards that became Open Firmware (IEEE-1275) and NuBus (IEEE-1296). Before retiring in October 2013, one of his last projects was with the team that developed Thunderbolt technology.