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+From mib@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU Tue May  7 12:07:53 1991
+From: mib@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU
+Newsgroups: gnu.announce
+Subject: FSF work on a GNU OS
+Date: 6 May 91 22:15:22 GMT
+Reply-To: mib@prep.ai.mit.edu
+Distribution: gnu
+Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
+
+The Free Software Foundation is beginning work on a GNU operating
+system built on top of the Mach 3.0 microkernel.  There are three
+goals to this project worth noting:
+
+o Binary compatability with 4.4 BSD, and other U*x or U*xish systems
+  on other hardware where appropriate, convenient, and consistent with
+  the design;
+
+o Posix compliance (in combination with the GNU C Library and the GNU
+  C Compiler); and
+
+o Ease of use as well as several new features and functionality.
+
+
+I am interested in constructive criticism on the interfaces, design,
+and implementation from experts in the field of OS research and design
+consistent with the above goals.  Advice from seasoned U*x hackers is
+especially welcome.
+
+We have a mailing list for discussion.  Currently there is little
+discussion on the group; the major contributors to the ideas behind
+the design all live in the Boston area at this point, and work has
+been done via face-to-face communication.  I would like to open the
+field of discussion to a broader base, both to get wider dissemination
+of the ideas behind the current design, as well as to get a greater
+breadth of criticism.  Periodic postings are currently made to the
+mailing list containing a snapshot of the interfaces used by the
+various pieces of the system.  I would like to see discussion as well;
+perhaps we need a critical mass to get this.
+
+Interested individuals should send me email.  I don't regularly read
+the newsgroups to which this message is posted.
+
+
+[U*x is an abbreviation for a well-known trademark of AT&T.  :-)]
+
+	-mib
+