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Man I miss WriteNow


One of my favourite programs, esp. on my NeXT Cube. My wife wrote her Master's Thesis in WriteNow v2 on a Mac SE which I somehow managed to get printed on an HP LaserJet (IV I think it was --- the nice 600dpi one) at the college.

WriteNow was ~100,000 lines of assembler code.

It had an interesting history --- it was developed under contract for Apple as a hedge against MacWrite not making it --- when it was ready, they allowed it to be sold separately, then when Steve Jobs left Apple, it wound up getting ported to NeXTstep and for a while was bundled w/ Cubes until that was given up as anti-competitive.


On a giant Radius display. Ahhhhhh.


TFA probably came from being mentioned in this video from Adrian's Digital Basement: https://youtu.be/slY_F1MxGlk


It runs really well on my Q950.




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