Softa/ForGen archeology

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:50:39AM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
> Does Softa/FourGen 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.

The problem with Fourgen code is that it largely depends on
MenuMaster/Maestro/Ease, which is Xenix/SV, and therefore requires
IBCS/ABI to run.

That, in turn requires a 2.4 kernel -- I gather *some* versions of ABI
will run on *some* 2.6 kernels, but there's a *lot* less activity on
the project than you might expect.

Attempts have been made to shake the code out of whomever owns it, but
a) the last successful track-down I'm aware of is at least 3 years old
and maybe more, and b) whomever it was who had it wanted $10K for it.

It comes up here every 6 months or so; I could dig the relevent
messages out of my archive, but so can you.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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