rwessel (robertwessel.delete@this.yahoo.com) on August 5, 2014 5:40 pm wrote:
> 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.

Wordstar was the first application that came to mind that would have initially used 8080 to 8086 translation but I was not sure if it actually did.