gallier2 (gallier2.delete@this.gmx.de) on January 10, 2020 12:11 am wrote:
> David Hess (davidwhess.delete@this.gmail.com) on January 9, 2020 9:45 am wrote:
> > Adrian (a.delete@this.acm.org) on January 9, 2020 9:15 am wrote:
[...]
> > > So I have no doubt that porting programs from CP/M on 8080/Z80 to MS-DOS
> > > on 8088/8086 was very important in the beginning and that many might have
> > > used the assembly language translators, at least for an initial version.
> >
> > The only common program other than development tools that I used on CP/M was Wordstar and
> > I am pretty sure the initial MS-DOS Wordstar was translated. Later I used the spreadsheet
> > Microsoft Multiplan, which was pretty horrible, on CP/M but I never saw that on MS-DOS.
>
> turbo pascal, wordstar and dBase II were big programs on CP/M that were also ported to DOS.

At least for Turbo Pascal, we can be sure it was not the result of automated translation :)