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Latest comment: 21 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Macwrite is not the first such program that was widely available to the public to offer WYSIWYG operation.

That was Lisawrite published 1983 with Apple Lisa.

I'm not sure that the Lisa really counts as widely available. It was unpopular and sold poorly, and was aimed at business users anyhow. As far as widely available, the Mac fits the bill. --Dcclark 03:19, 11 May 2005 (UTC)Reply

Mac Write "Killer Application" citation and miscellany

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Concerning the killer application citation needed in the first paragraph of the article, MacWrite (Stylized Mac Write), is featured alongside Mac Paint in "The Apple Macintosh Computer" by Gregg Williams. in Byte Magazine pp. 46-48 detailing a computer program set sold alongside the Apple Macintosh. Likely one source for information on Mac products released and sold alongside the Apple Macintosh, though the direct quote "killer application" does not appear in the article. This may act as corroborating evidence and accompanying citation for the information in the article, even if it is not the source for the original quotation. Quotation marks for emphasis or to signify a common saying or colloquial noun? BYTE article does not provide information on the public reception of or reaction to the software, so might not work as a source commenting on the role the software played in popularizing the GUI and the Macintosh. Williams' article also mentions the Imagewriter Printer and its connections to the software. The Williams' article also mentions "Macauthor" as a development name for the software on page 51 of the same.

I accessed the magazine digitally through the internet archive, linked in the citation.

Greg Williams, "The Apple Macintosh," BYTE: The Small Systems Journal 9, no. 2 (1984): 46-48, accessed January 19, 2026, https://archive.org/details/1982-10-byte-magazine-october-1-byte-magazine-21533/1984%2002%20BYTE%2009-02%20Benchmarks%20-%20Byte%20Magazine_21526/mode/1up?q=Mac Alguy1911 (talk) 22:54, 19 January 2026 (UTC)Reply

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