kevin diggs <diggskevin38@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > To put it another way ... How recent of a binutils do you think I > could run on such an old OS? 2.16.1 works with both NetBSD 1.6.1 on a > Quadra 700 and Redhat 7.1 on a 386? I don't know of any reason why you couldn't run the current binutils release (2.21) on an old OS. The binutils source code is intentionally conservative. Of course, I have not actually tried. Ian