[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[Andrew]

On 02/12/2011 14:46, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article<e4ecdc3d4f8244d2ec876ee44d678d70 at dizum.com>, Nomen Nescio<nobody at dizum.com>  writes:
>> koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:
>>
>>> In article<vsydncMHi8m6M0vTnZ2dnUVZ_gadnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert"<rgilbert88 at comcast.net>  writes:
>>>>
>>>> I'd suggest a "reduction in force" in the Federal government.  What they
>>>> "produce" you can't eat, you can't drink, and will not keep you warm at
>>>> night
>>>
>>>     But it might save your silly ass, keep it free, or spawn a new
>>>     industry to employ it.
>>
>> That kind of sentiment might have been true in 1942. In 2012 it's pure
>> horseshit. The biggest threat to the American Way of Life is the "government
>> who's help to help you".
>
>     You'ld like to live in a country that where there were no first
>     repsonders?  had no defense against Al-Quaeda?  did not fund early
>     work on computers?  never experimented with ARPANET?
>
The first computers were built by Tommy Flowers during WW2 in Bletchley 
England. After the war he went back to his job at the GPO as a telecom 
engineer and the details of his work was given to the Americans for 
free, a couple of the machines were secretly given to GCHQ and were in 
use up to the late sixties. There others were smashed up and everyone 
gagged with secrecy orders. We could have been ahead of IBM, Univac and 
Burroughs but Winston Churchill was paranoid about the Russians getting 
the details.

>     The government is not all good, and I won't claim it is.  But I won't
>     buy into that "government is _only_ bad" thing.
>
>     I now more that one poster in c.o.v has made some of his money by
>     government contracts.
>