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From: sinyaw@sinyaw.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Where did the name "Dhrystone" come from?
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Date: Mon, 16-Feb-87 14:09:23 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 16 14:09:23 1987
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In article <1333@ncr-sd.UUCP> steves@ncr-sd.UUCP (0000-Steve Schlesinger) writes:
>
>In article <299@ames.UUCP> eugene@pioneer.UUCP (Eugene Miya N.) writes:
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>>Dhrystone is simply a weak pun on Whetstone just as
>>Where did Whetstone come from?
>
>It was developed in a lab in Whetstone, England.

In "Transactions of ACM", October 1987, you can find the original paper of
"Dhrystone: A Synthetic Systems Programming Benchmark" by Reinhold
Weicker.  It is worth reading.