The following is a series of highlights I chose to illustrate what’s good (and what could be improved) about WriteNow. ![]() There is a very nice review of WriteNow 4.0 (the last and more complete version) on the 5 August 1994 Issue of MacUser UK, written by Clive Grace. ![]() WriteNow was originally owned by NeXT and published by the T/Maker Company. Ultimately, MacWrite was in fact completed on schedule and shipped with the Macintosh, while WriteNow was later made available as a commercial product after Steve Jobs left Apple to form NeXT. Members of the WriteNow team knew about MacWrite, but members of the MacWrite team did not know about WriteNow. Steve Jobs was concerned that those programming MacWrite were not going to be ready for the 1984 release date of the Macintosh he therefore commissioned a team of programmers to work independently on a similar project, which eventually became WriteNow. by John Anderson and Bill Tschumy in Seattle, separate from the Macintosh computer and MacWrite word processor development teams. WriteNow was written for Apple Computer, Inc. ![]() Its genesis is interesting and is well summarised by the Wikipedia entry: WriteNow is a Macintosh classic par excellence, since it was one of the first word processors available for the Macintosh along with MacWrite.
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