I disagree. I think AOS and the software it runs is what counts. I probably changed opinion about this over the years though. If you'd asked me that question in mid 90's I'd would have agreed on hardware.
I think the fact that we have reached adequate performance to use full framerate 24-bit graphics everywhere (even low-end h/w) made the hardware issue quite irrelevant.
Adequate performance is btw very close to my defentition of the Amiga h/w in the '90, when the x86's struggled to run Windows & co at speeds anything but adequate, the Amiga excelled.
Today I just want AOS and the apps running on a 1GHz PPC / modern gfx board. And it's Because I think it would provide the future Amiga software with adequate performance.
And what is Linux then? Gotcha!
:-)
"-Any unix not running on an 1980's IBM mainframe..."
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