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Ha! If that is the case, then
Wiki says that SCO Open Desktop 2.0 is 3.2v4.1 1992.
So, can software for SCO 3.2v4.1 run on SCO OpenServer 5.0 3.2v5.0 1995 ? I assume it can.
Are these really the old 5" floppies? I can't understand the posts so well
Nor can we :-)
Most older SCO apps could transition to the 5.0.x versions. If there were obstacles, sometimes a little creative linking/ symlinking could resolve it, but in general, you have to need or want it very badly if it doesn't just pop up working. I can tell you that it would take a lot more than money to get me involved in anything like that today. In general, I strongly urge people toward Linux - and even (shudder) Windows if there is no other choice.
The stuff is just too hard to support. I fixed up an old SCO spreadsheet app to run on a 5.0.6 system some years back - for unexplained reasons it just stopped working last year. The people wanted me to fix it again - I just put my foot down and told them they had to move on because I wasn't going to mess with it again. They were not happy, but I was :-)
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I found Peerkins Elmer software running on SCO:
EVISA Instrument database: Perkin-Elmer Corp. - Optima 3000
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Operating Systems: SCO/UNIX ODT (multitasking & multiuser environment), MS-DOS, and Microsoft Windows.
So - he very well could have old SCO software. Again, could be xinstall, pkgadd or even just tar or cpio disks.