I've run these, I know some curl exists on them, but in my experience that curl is always like at least 15 years old.
If you say you don't want to break some support matrix and the last build on a bunch of that matrix was well over a decade ago, how do you know it's not broken?
I don’t think you can build for Xenix, the most modern GCC that can target it is 2.7 and that’s already ancient, not to mention the network code. It’s probably “at some point it was running on those systems”.
It's a pretty cool machine but I assure you it's extremely useless these days.
The TIFF format it uses, for instance, no longer supported by imagemagick. It doesn't support modern DNS resolution and if you want NFS you'll need a legacy v3 server.
The Ethernet is a blistering 10baseT and the SCSI drive doesn't crack 300MB.
The ssh server exists but modern clients no longer support it's archaic protocol.
You've got perl and zsh, that's nice. There's also some antique Apache for it so you can use WebDAV and you can get it to play mp3s in real time if they're mono channel and under 32khz (yes, that's what I meant)
That doesn’t mean you cannot waste some time having fun with it: I’ve ported some software to Xenix (including Doom, sort-of-working: https://github.com/gattilorenz/Xenix-doom), and while completely useless it’s intellectually stimulating.
But geez, 25$… that’s a nice thrift find!
They're not waiting on their, say, Blackberry 10 build to pass the test suite before tagging a release.