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Re: AMIGA Name bought by Commodore!
Posted on 6-Sep-2010 12:16:32
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@djrikki

4 things made an Amiga:

A - High performance, unique custom hardware
B - Outstanding operating system and GUI (Workbench)
C - Exclusive/awesome games
D - Kick-ass user community

It wasn't until after the demise of Commodore (and Escom) in the Gateway years, that it's decided that point A is a dead end, due the way the industry evolved. Only since then, the Amiga is reduced to B, an Operating System. C and D are pretty much gone, obviously.

So this is why the whole "whatever runs AmigaOS4 is the true Amiga" is BS to me. Escom were the last to build Amiga computers.

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Re: AMIGA Name bought by Commodore!
Posted on 6-Sep-2010 12:26:30
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@djrikki
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Its not my POV it simple logic. No citation required.


It's not as straightforward as you make out though.

Let's imagine you define Amigas more by the hardware. What happens when AROS is ported to 68k Amigas? That would mean AROS would run on 'real' Amigas, whereas the latest version of AmigaOS (4.1) would not.

How does this fit in with your definition of what makes an Amiga system?

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