Re: "Volunteers to make OS4 HW entries for Big Book of Amiga HW"

[Gulliver]

Nobody has to make it "a little more the true", it actually is.

It is not. Get over it, Amiga, is long dead since the nineties.
Today we have new Amiga-like systems, which some are really cool, and try to follow what they believe would nowadays be the Amiga concept. But they are not "the real Amiga thing" just because a bunch of former software developers, rabid users, and marketing people wish to. And it is nothing wrong or devious of assuming some computer is Amiga-like, it is great to have them, and shows the strong influence the Amiga had in the computing world, despite the fact it died at a young age

It is always a nice thing to call things by their actual name.

[Gulliver]

What's that got to do with anything I said? I refuted the claim that AmigaOS 4 is "more officially Amiga" only in the eyes of some religious zealots - it is actually more official than its 'competitors'.

That doesn't mean it's a better product, or still relevant or whatever else. It just means it's more official. And if that's really important to somebody, so be it.

I thought you were stating the opposite, my wrong

Exactly, which is why there's one official AmigaOS and two clones - which are collectively referred to as "the Amiga systems" on Amiga-News.de, similar to "the Unix systems" which is also a family of more or less compatible operating systems, some official, some clones.

I wouldnt risk to say OS4 is official. It is officialy made by Hyperion, and they "claim" it is the official "AmigaOS" but not "Amiga OS", and that they have argued that they have some legal rights for that. And then it runs on the "AmigaOne" but not on an "Amiga".

To continue elaborating this, my x86 notebook runs the official Commodore-Amiga OS 3.0 within  WinUAE, but that doesnt make my notebook an Amiga.