Softa/ForGen archeology

[Bill Campbell]

I got a call from somebody yesterday about dealing with an old
Softa Filepro project (old Softa being a good example of
redundancy).  The system is currently running on an SCO
OpenServer system, and, of course, the hardware is getting very
long in the tooth.  I have not seen the system yet so have not
been able to look at how it is put together.

Does Softa/ForeGen code generally depend on compiled binary
programs, in particular x286 code?  If not, we will probably put
this on CentOS 5 Linux box, otherwise I would probably want to go
with OSR 5.0.6a under VMware.

Of course the customer has been using this for decades, and
doesn't really want to spend any money.

Bill
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