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Yoot Tower

10 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2024-04-16 · latest 2026-10-07

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  1. …as Scratch. It was just when we added lambda that we started thinking more in Scheme terms. https://github.com/YootTowerManagement/YootTower/blob/main/Y... Alan Kay> The fact that kids were to be the users, and the simplicity and ease of…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2026-10-07 · in The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)
  2. …of people, institutions, technologies and a timeline: Yoot Saito Alan Kay Interview: Introduction: https://github.com/YootTowerManagement/YootTower/blob/main/Y... In 1993, game designer Yutaka "Yoot" Saito interviewed Alan Kay for MACWORLD…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2026-10-06 · in The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)
  3. …Don Hopkins to jump into this thread, saying how he's going to release the source code soon... ( https://github.com/YootTowerManagement/YootTower if you haven't seen one of his messages on the topic before)
    comment by jcranmer · 2026-07-31 · in Show HN: Elevators
  4. …the Iris”! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamera_3:_Revenge_of_Iris Here's a summary of Tower Kit: https://github.com/YootTowerManagement/YootTower/blob/main/R... >What's Tower Kit? >Tower Kit is optional software for The Tower II. In The…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2026-05-01 · in Reverse Engineering SimTower
  5. …of Yoot Saito's interview of Alan Kay that he shared with me and I cleaned up and linked out: https://github.com/YootTowerManagement/YootTower/blob/main/Y... A Journey Through Computing History with Yoot Saito and Alan Kay Yoot towers…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2026-05-01 · in Reverse Engineering SimTower
  6. …back Don Hopkins got the permission from Yoot Saito to open source Yoot Tower, SimTower's sequel: https://github.com/YootTowerManagement/YootTower ...however I don't think that the source was ever published anywhere, considering that the…
    comment by MrPowerGamerBR · 2026-05-01 · in Reverse Engineering SimTower
  7. …one of the first systems for overlapping windows for Smalltalk, and the Smalltalk code editor. https://github.com/YootTowerManagement/YootTower/blob/main/Y... Diana Merry-Shapiro (Xerox PARC): A member of the Learning Research Group, she…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2024-06-11 · in Lynn Conway has died
  8. …script and download extensions in JavaScript instead of modifying and recompiling C++ code. https://github.com/YootTowerManagement/YootTower/tree/main https://web.archive.org/web/20000521002924fw_/http://www.ope... >What's Tower Kit?…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2024-04-16 · in Descent 3 Source Code
  9. …making an open source version of Yoot Tower (aka Sim Tower, The Tower II) that runs in the browser! https://github.com/YootTowerManagement/YootTower What led to this being possible: There was recently a discussion about elevators on Hacker…
    comment by DonHopkins · 2024-04-16 · in Descent 3 Source Code