[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

[AEF]

On Nov 29, 12:45 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> 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 Qu bec.

Is this a joke by you? The very name of the province is broken?
Perhaps you could use an underscore to patch it up for now. (~_^)

>
> 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.

Well, now's the time while interest rates are low! Well, I don't know
what they are for Canada, but I'd be surprised if they're high.

>
> 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.

I'd say medium to medium-large.

AEF