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Comment by WillAdams

14 days ago

Interestingly, her first task at NeXT was writing the user manual for WriteNow for Macintosh (apparently in WriteNow, and certainly on a Macintosh).

For folks who aren't familiar w/ it, it was contracted for by Apple as a hedge against MacWrite not making it and as an "advanced MacWrite" --- ~100,000 lines of assembly language, it was blazingly fast, yet still had quite nice features and was _very_ capable (my wife wrote her Master's Thesis in it) which I then had to coax out of HP LaserJet (IV I think --- the first 600 dpi one).