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Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:09:47 +0200
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On 7/24/10 1:20 AM, (see below) wrote:
> Does anyone know where the original Ada source of the Dhrystone benchmark
> can be downloaded? So far I've only identified the ACM portal, to which I
> have no access.


The FTP archive at Ada Belgium (ftp.cs.kuleuven.ac.be) lists
a zip in
/pub/Ada-Belgium/ase/ase02_02/benchmrk/piwg/piwg_11/piwg

File A000091.ADA from the zip archive starts with these lines:

--A000091
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--                                                                           --
--                "DHRYSTONE" Benchmark Program                              --
--                -----------------------------                              --
--                                                                           --
--         Version ADA/1                                                     --
--                                                                           --
--         Date:   04/15/84                                                  --
--                                                                           --
--         Author: Reinhold P. Weicker                                       --
--                                                                           --
--                                                                           --
--  As published in Communications of ACM, October 1984  Vol 27 No 10        --
--                                                                           --
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
...


(This time Google groups search has worked for me.
One of the two messages in the result was written
by someone with username stt and points to "the PIWG
benchmarks" :)