Using FP 5.6 to develope for 5.0.14 runtime systems

[Bill McEachran]

I'm not sure about SCO ... but with Linux when I hit a situation like 
this I'm more likely to virtualize the old machine and continue using it.

On 5/20/2010 9:25 AM, Mike Schwartz wrote:
>> Has any one used Fp  5.6 to do development work for customers running
>> 5.0.14
>>
>> My SCO system is getting too old to rely on so I need to move to a
>> Linux
>> server.  I've been developing in 5.0.14 on the SCO box and that's what
>>
>>
>> Scott Walker
>>      
>       Hardware is very cheap.  Why don't you just get an inexpensive used
> computer and reinstall the SCO and filePro 5.0.14 on it?
>
>       The development systems I have running at most of my customer sites are
> typically low-cost desktop machines with a couple of IDE drives in them.
>
>       I like it when I find used machines that are rock-solid that people are
> throwing out. In particular, I like to find older machines with Intel GB850
> series motherboards that use RIMM style memory.  The RIMM memory sticks are
> so expensive that most of these machines can't economically be upgraded to
> more than 1 GIG of RAM, so my customers are throwing them out prematurely.
>
>       I put new power supplies and fans in them, clean them up, install a
> brand new IDE drive as the main drive and leave the old IDE drive in it as a
> backup drive and then use these as development machines.  I bet they will
> run reliably for at least 10 years at a cost of less than $100.00 in parts
> and labor.
>
> Mike Schwartz
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