Editing Spell checker (section)

===PCs===
The first spell checkers for personal computers appeared in 1980, such as "WordCheck" for Commodore systems which was released in late 1980 in time for advertisements to go to print in January 1981.<ref>{{cite news
   |url=https://www.commodore.ca/gallery/magazines/compute/Compute-008.pdf
   |title=Micro Computer Industries, Ltd.  |work=Compute! Magazine, Issue 8, Vol. 3, No. 1
   |date=January 1981  |author=Advertisement |page=119}}</ref> Developers such as Maria Mariani<ref name="cled.georgetown.edu"/> and [[Random House]]<ref name="pc198211">{{cite magazine |magazine=[[PC Magazine]]
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vy3cBZkjbZgC&pg=PA165
|title=The Spelling Bee Is Over
|date=November 1982 |access-date=21 October 2013 |author=Advertisement |pages=165}}</ref> rushed [[Original equipment manufacturer|OEM]] packages or end-user products into the rapidly expanding software market. On the pre-Windows PCs, these spell checkers were standalone programs, many of which could be run in [[terminate-and-stay-resident]] mode from within word-processing packages on PCs with sufficient memory.

However, the market for standalone packages was short-lived, as by the mid-1980s developers of popular word-processing packages like [[WordStar]] and [[WordPerfect]] had incorporated spell checkers in their packages, mostly licensed from the above companies, who quickly expanded support from just [[English language|English]] to many [[Languages of Europe|Europe]]an and eventually even [[Asian language]]s. However, this required increasing sophistication in the morphology routines of the software, particularly with regard to heavily-[[agglutinative]] languages like [[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] and [[Finnish language|Finnish]]. Although the size of the word-processing market in a country like [[Iceland]] might not have justified the investment of implementing a spell checker, companies like WordPerfect nonetheless strove to localize their software for as many national markets as possible as part of their global [[marketing]] strategy.

When Apple developed "a system-wide spelling checker" for Mac OS X so that "the operating system took over spelling fixes,"<ref>{{cite book
|title=Mac OS X Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual |author=David Pogue |year=2009}}</ref> it was a first: one "didn't have to maintain a separate spelling checker for each" program.<ref>{{cite book |title=Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual
|author=David Pogue |year=2015|publisher="O'Reilly Media, Inc." |isbn=9781491948125 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1XFmBgAAQBAJ}}</ref> [[Mac OS X]]'s spellcheck coverage includes virtually all bundled and third party applications.

''Visual Tools''' ''VT Speller'', introduced in 1994, was "designed for developers of applications that support Windows."<ref>{{cite news |newspaper=[[Computerworld]]
   |date=February 21, 1994  |page=68
   |title=VisualTools VT-Speller}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|url=https://trademarks.justia.com/browse-by-date/1993/september/27
|title=Browse September 27, 1993
|quote=VT-SPELLER}}</ref> It came with a dictionary but had the ability to build and incorporate use of secondary dictionaries.<ref>{{cite magazine  |magazine=[[PC Magazine]] |date=November 8, 1994
   |title=Spell-Checking for your Apps
   |author=Peter G. Aitken |page=299}}</ref>