the question one should ask is: "Does it run AMIGA OS?"
Absolutely not. My pc can run Amiga OS, and is NOT an Amiga.
In these (hopefully) modern times, the OS should matter more. Things done "the Amiga way".
Amiga is the name of a computer from history, it refers to HARDWARE, and the OS is irrelevant.
I think some limit "the Amiga" by restricting it to (maybe fabled by now) custom silicon.
But that's what Amigas are. They're computers based on custom (chipset), and not so custom hardware (68k).
It's probably more relevant to think: what hardware is 'Amiga OS specific'?
No, it's not. General purpose computers are never OS specific. Amiga OS specific hardware doesn't exist, and that includes actual Amigas.
:biglaugh: I think Amigan 'purists' are insane now.
You're calling people insane for pointing out that Amigas are computers from a few decades ago, and not accept the whole 'If it runs anything that even just looks like Amiga OS, then it's an Amiga' thing. It's you guys who need to wake up and stop wanting your non-Amiga computers to magically become Amigas, because it ain't ever gonna happen.
And no, people who know what Amigas really are (is that even such a difficult thing to know?), will not call your non-Amiga computers Amigas just because you want the machines to be Amigas.
When times change, you change with them, or get changed to the past forever.
Amiga IS the past (in the sense that they haven't been made for a long time). Just like the Atari ST, Commodore 64, MSX, ZX Spectrum, and all other home computers from the eighties.
