>Old MacWrite? Writenow 3? Both worked well with minimal RAM. For compatability with the Real World, it's hard to beat Word 5.1. Although you can't read Word98 or higher documents easily well as the convertor plugin (or standalone convertor, I forget all the options out there for conversions) needs more than a vanilla 68000.
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