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DGPickett
Most x86 LINUX/UNIX code used to be portable, but I haven't checked if x86_64 systems run old 32 bit coff/elf executables and files.
ELF ought to work given matching libraries, but ELF was 1995 and later. There's still options for ECOFF in the Linux kernel, but they might need to be built-in custom; I can't imagine a standard kernel having them enabled.
Whether a program from 1992 will work without its corresponding libraries is another question. I have no idea how shared libraries would need to be set up for COFF. I doubt the standard ld.so system would touch them.