By: rwessel (robertwessel.delete@this.yahoo.com), August 5, 2014 5:40 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
David Hess (davidwhess.delete@this.gmail.com) on August 5, 2014 4:56 pm wrote:
> Maxwell (max.delete@this.a.com) on August 4, 2014 7:55 pm wrote:
> > Obviously a typo, he meant 8080. Although the 8086 wasn't binary compatible with the 8080, you could
> > convert 8080 assembly source code to 8086 with a simple translator (not that anyone did).
>
> The translation compatibility might have been used with some CP/M applications
> early on but I cannot point to one as a specific example.
Wordstar was perhaps the most famous example.
> Maxwell (max.delete@this.a.com) on August 4, 2014 7:55 pm wrote:
> > Obviously a typo, he meant 8080. Although the 8086 wasn't binary compatible with the 8080, you could
> > convert 8080 assembly source code to 8086 with a simple translator (not that anyone did).
>
> The translation compatibility might have been used with some CP/M applications
> early on but I cannot point to one as a specific example.
Wordstar was perhaps the most famous example.