At what point are you no longer playing AD&D?

[Valiant]

Whereas I figure that the current version of D&D is most truly D&D and earlier versions, especially those close to its tactical wargaming roots, were just part of the process of D&D becoming 'real' D&D. Different strokes, as usual.

Thats why I asked "at what point your not playing AD&D". The debate of which version is better is a waist of time, its based on taste. However, each version has boundaries that seperate it from the rest of the continuim, otherwise you couldn't tell a difference between the versions (yet, if you sat down at a table of gamers you'd likely know what version of D&D they were playing in a matter of minutes (even without seeing the books or character sheets).