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From: ced@apollo.COM (Carl Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,rec.humor
Subject: Re: rhealstone
Message-ID: <41a21b08.13e2d@apollo.COM>
Date: 22 Feb 89 22:47:00 GMT
References: <1521@trantor.harris-atd.com>
Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, Mass.
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From article <1521@trantor.harris-atd.com>, by chuck@melmac.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano):
> In article <5681@pdn.nm.paradyne.com> alan@pdn.nm.paradyne.com (0000-Alan Lovejoy) writes:
>>It seems that *h*stone has become a standard infix/prefix for naming
>>computer benchmarks.  It might be interesting to collect a list of
>>all the benchmarks whose names have this form, and to entertain
>>suggestions for new, perhaps whimsical, benchmark names that would
>>use this infix/prefix.
>>
>>Suggestions for Stoned Benchmarks:
>>
>>An animation benchmark might be called the "Flhintstone" :-).
> 
>      I think this is a great idea!  Let it be known, years from now, when
> everyone wonders where the name originated, that it was right here in
> comp.arch, courtesy of Mr. Lovejoy.
> 
> Chuck Musciano
> Advanced Technology Department
> Harris Corporation
> (407) 727-6131
> ARPA: chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com

No! No! No!

It should be Fhlintstones!  The "h" is *always* the second letter!
(flames about spelling flames to /dev/null -- this is not a spelling flame)

Otherwise, a great idea.

-- 
  Carl Davidson              "Real life is too important to be taken seriously"
  Apollo Computer Inc.                 
  Chelmsford, MA 01824                 
  ced@apollo.com