[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[JF Mezei]

AEF wrote:

> Well, understanding or otherwise, those who get the fat paychecks
> won't care until the limo they're riding in goes over a bridge while
> it's collapsing due to neglect due to lack of funding!


This is happening in Québec.

In the 1960s, a lot of money was spent to build Montreal into a large
city. A huge elevated and complex highway interchange was built in
montreal.  Well, this thing is expected to collapse any day now.  They
have people 7/24 applying duct tape to keep it together, but the govt
doesn't have the money to rebuild it quickly enough that it won't
cripple montreal's economy.

Fiscal responsability since the 1990s has meant lots of cutbacks.
 And bridge maintenance cutbacks was something people didn't notice
until a bridge collapsed and an inventory of the province's bridges
showed that a whole bunch had been poorly maintained, were  reaching end
of life and many were closed until they could be fixed. For some
critical bridges, metal scaffoliding was added under it to help support
the bridge.



The problem is that when you borrow a whole lot of money for rapid
construction of infrastructure you cant really afford, 40 years later
when the infrastructure needs to be replaced, it all needs to be
replaced at the same time and that causes fiscal problems.

TO bring it back to VMS: consider the neglect in development over the
last many years. As a result, to bring VMS back up to modern standards,
it would require a large investment from HP in real engineers.