Editing WriteNow (section)

==Discontinuation==
Around 1993, rights to WriteNow (for both Macintosh and NeXT operating systems) were purchased by [[WordStar]].<ref name=macuser0693/> Shortly after that, WordStar merged with [[The Learning Company (formerly SoftKey)|SoftKey]],<ref>{{Cite web|date=August 18, 1993|title=SoftKey to buy Spinnaker, WordStar|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1993/08/18/SoftKey-to-buy-Spinnaker-WordStar/4167745646400/|access-date=2021-08-11|website=UPI|language=en}}</ref> and WriteNow was later discontinued. The lifecycle of computers using the 680x0 architecture was coming to an end, and the architecture-specific assembly language code that made WriteNow so much faster than its competitors also made it much more difficult to port to the new [[PowerPC]] processor<ref name=macworld9503 /> than competing word processors written in [[high level language|high-level languages]] such as [[C (programming language)|C]].