@elendil,
Why are you all celebrating?
There's a saying about dying on you feet or living on your knees. I suspect a lot of those posters who are celebrating the auction because they think it means they're safe again.
In Canada there's a similar story: the Avro Arrow. Basically it was a jet interceptor designed around 1953-57 that (would) have beat just about anything flying till probably the early 1970s. The thing is, it was cancelled before it went into production and the final prototype never flew (arrowheads: sorry if I've left a lot of details out).
I see this as a metaphor for the Amiga community: if Amiga fails, they can always talk about how good it was, how far ahead of everything it was- and they'll be no-one using Amigas to point out when they're wrong!
Or maybe another example from The Simpsons: Lisa is given a choice at the end of one episode to either move up to grade 3 and be a small fish in a big pond or stay in grade 2 (as a "big fish in a small pond") where she's smarter than most of her classmates. She yells: "Big fish, big fish!". Some Amiga owners are like that- they like the Amiga market because it's so claustrophobic, if it got bigger they'd feel they'd be drowned out. If this auction is anything to worry about, then, congratulations, you're spot in the small pond is safe. Just watch out for those C64 users- who knows maybe they'll port UAE to the C64 one day
I personally disagree- someday you'll have to move to the big pond, even if we have to drag you kicking and screaming for "AAA, SuperDuper-Agnus, 16-bit Paula, Hombre...mommmmie save me from reality!"
Zoltan
(who spends too much time on amiga boards)
