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Dave Erickson and John Hild were employees of Atex, a Boston-based maker of newspaper and magazine content management systems. Atex systems used hot-rodded DEC PDP-11 minicomputer hardware, a custom operating system and idiosyncratic dumb terminals whose keys were dedicated to word processing functions. Atex software also managed the flow of articles between writers and editors and designers. Hild and Erickson saw the arrival of the IBM PC as an opening to build an Atex-like editor for a broader market. As it turned out, the biggest market for
XyWrite probably was the publishing industry. In fact, Atex sold a version of
XyWrite called Writer that talked to Atex editing systems.
XyQuest foundered after IBM aborted a deal to sell a new version of
XyWrite, dubbed Signature, to the worldwide general business market.