Amiga is female right?

[psxphill]

The name derives from Latin yeah? Meaning female friend?

'Cos this creates a whole lot of connotations I really hadn't thought of before, until now.

 The word is feminine, but you're probably projecting your own personality if you think that means something.
 
http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/genoun1.htm
 
 "One cannot predict the gender of a noun, except in the case of living creatures. Do not try to analyze the nature of the object, looking for some inherent masculinity or femininity. It won't work!

 Take a guess. Do you think the Spanish word for "dress" is masculine or feminine? You might expect it to be feminine, since a dress is an article of clothing worn by females.
 Actually, the word for "dress" is a masculine word:"

[psxphill]

Actually yes, but to the point "Thomas vade in domum tuam"

Amiga means female friend yes. As opposed to male friend.

Except it was the name of the company, not the computer.

Under commodore there was a short time when the Amiga 1000 came out that it was called Commodore Amiga but it was clear that Amiga was the family name. People usually pick family names they liked the sound of, although some were related to occupation in the past http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Occupational_surnames.

Picking names is complex

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/10/the-chinese-guide-to-avoiding-a-bad-english-name/381685/
 
 Amiga's are all male, but we're in enlightened times. If yours wants to act like a girl then it's free to do so.

[psxphill]

Amiga, because m comes before p and t in the alphabet, and female because it was a little different at the time. Not to be confused with novia.

I'm sure someone said they nearly went with Amigo but changed it because Amiga sounded nicer. But all of the old stories have been re-told so many times that whether they are the truth or not is difficult to tell.

[psxphill]

Yes. And the team that made the Amiga named the chips after their wives.

I'm pretty sure that isn't true.

"Unlike the other custom chips which were christened with women's monikers, the Agnus chip is not a corruption of the name Agnes (as I had previously thought), but rather, according to Jim Williams, Jay Miner named it Agnus from the Latin expression agnus dei ('lamb of God')."

Portia became Paula and allegedly that was the girlfriend of an unnamed chip designer. IMO the earlier acronym made more sense.

Daphne turned into Denise, no idea why this changed. It might be because they couldn't make up a plausible acronym for daphne.
 
 Lorraine was David Morse's wife.

[psxphill]

Hi-Toro had two divisions: one to produce games and peripherals for the Atari 2600, the other to develop the new console, which was named Lorraine (after the wife of CEO Dave Morse). The company marketed several successful peripherals for the Atari 2600 and also released several games. As a result, Hi-Toro was flush with cash to be used on the Lorraine project.

http://lowendmac.com/orchard/06/amiga-origin-commodore.html

What is clear is that the first Amiga machine to be shown to the public wasn%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!8217;t so much a prototype of a real or potential computer or game console as the most minimalist possible frame to show off the capabilities of the Amiga chipset. Named after Morse%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!8217;s wife, the Amiga Lorraine began to come together in the dying days of 1983, in a mad scramble leading up to the Winter Consumer Electronics Show that was scheduled to begin on January 4

http://www.filfre.net/2015/03/the-68000-wars-part-1-lorraine/

Yes, that was my point. Lorraine was named after Dave Morse's wife.

Yes. And the team that made the Amiga named the chips after their wives.

I'm pretty sure that isn't true.

"Unlike the other custom chips which were christened with women's monikers, the Agnus chip is not a corruption of the name Agnes (as I had previously thought), but rather, according to Jim Williams, Jay Miner named it Agnus from the Latin expression agnus dei ('lamb of God')."

Portia became Paula and allegedly that was the girlfriend of an unnamed chip designer. IMO the earlier acronym made more sense.

Daphne turned into Denise, no idea why this changed. It might be because they couldn't make up a plausible acronym for daphne.

Lorraine was David Morse's wife.

Lorraine was the computer, you didn't mention the chip names. So I don't get your point.

OT: Hi-Torro was originally going to produce an Atari 2600 add on, similar to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starpath_Supercharger. They switched to a standalone console which then went on to become the Amiga. That is why they were involved in Atari 2600, it wasn't a cover or just a quick way of making cash. They were initially looking to make a big name in the Atari 2600 market.