New mailing list!

[Dennis Marer]

Greetings all!

	This is a quick message to distribute a current mailing list.  A few
of you have mentioned that there might be a site you know of which could
accomodate us with (1) a mailing list, and (2) a place to store files which
could be FTPed in and out.  If you do, let me know now...if you don't, I'll
have to set up an account which will will cost me about $20/month plus about
$0.04/month/kbyte stored.  (I'd prefer the free route, but the service is
nice with the paid account.)  Give me a yell if you know of someone!


Major Contributors: (150% effort and above)
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	Andreas Arff		ANDREASA@dhhalden.no
	Gary Duzan		duzan@cis.udel.edu
	David Garfield		garfield@sra.com
	Ross Hayden		haydedr@wkuvx1.bitnet
	Dennis Marer		dmarer@td2cad.intel.com
	Rob McKeever		mckeeveb@sfu.ca
	John Newlin		newlin@ecn.purdue.edu
	Dan Odom		danodom@matt.ksu.ksu.edu
	Fare' Rideau		rideau@clipper.ens.fr
	Michael Winikoff	winikoff@cs.mu.oz.au

Other Contibutors: (Under 150% due to time constraints)
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	Peter Mueller		mueller@sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE	(105%)

	I haven't heard from everybody, but I expect a few more responses in
the near future.  I'm working on putting together the initial specifications
(revision 0) so I will send those off to everybody in a day or two.  (Depends
how motivated I am tonight... :-)  From there, we'll all be able to get an
idea of the "big picture", and discuss what needs to be changed and firm up
some details.  Nothing at this point is set in concrete - it's all up for
discussion, so contribute those great ideas!  We'll keep revving it until we've
decided as a group nothing more can be changed, and then start internal design.
So far it's about 10 pages long, plus I'll add some more tonight...are you sure
none of you has an FTP site we can use?  I can't wait!

	Things to think about: Which languages to implement? My preference is
C++ which will be a standard by the time we're done (hopefully), but that's
also up for debate.  Also, still taking suggestions for group names and
product names.  Now is the time to send them in!

	Also, I've talked with several people interested in cross-porting this
project to the Motorola processor at the same time we're writing for the 386.
(Forgive me Intel!)  I think this is an excellent idea!  Unforunately I don't
have 68k access...

	Keep in touch!

				Dennis