Editing WriteNow (section)

==NeXT port==
Early on WriteNow was ported to the NeXT operating system and was subsequently bundled with NeXT workstations.

Due to concerns of third-party publishers such as [[WordPerfect]] over the issue of competing with a free word processor, it was unbundled 1 October 1991<ref name=nextwextra0991 /><ref>{{cite magazine| magazine=NeXTWorld| volume=1 |number=4 |date=1991 |url=https://archive.org/details/NeXTWORLDVol.1No.4Winter1991/page/n17/mode/2up |page=17 |first=Dan |last=Lavin |title=NeXT Ink |access-date=12 August 2021}}</ref> and ownership transferred to Appsoft, which sold it as shrink-wrapped software.<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=NeXTWorld |volume=2 |number=1 |date=1992| url=https://archive.org/details/NeXTWORLDVol.2No.1Spring1992/page/n67/mode/2up |title=Review: WriteNow |page=65 |first1=John Perry |last1=Barlow |author-link1=John Perry Barlow |first2=Dan |last2=Lavin| access-date=12 August 2021}}</ref> From that time, NeXTSTEP shipped without a full-featured word processing program. WriteNow for NeXT became available for sale on October 15 for $199.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://archive.org/details/NeXTWORLDVol.1No.4Winter1991/page/n91/mode/2up |magazine=NeXTWorld Extra |issue=November 1991 |pages=1, 6 |first=Dan |last=Ruby |date=November 1991 |access-date=12 August 2021 |title=Appsoft}}</ref>

WriteNow was written in Motorola 68k [[assembly language]], upon which the NeXT hardware was based.