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

[Thorham]

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

Yeah, that's right. No one calls a Ford a Mitsubishi. These people don't realize the mess we'd be in if everyone just started calling things whatever they wanted.

[Thorham]

Well, now that we have been reminded again that MorphOS and AROS has no connection to Amiga OS other than the API and that none of its HW should be on the same list as OS4 hardware for this reason

Bad reason indeed. A better reason is perhaps that PC and Mac hardware don't belong on an Amiga page, because PCs and Macs aren't related to the Amiga. Saying Aros and MorphOS have nothing to do with Amiga is of course plain nonsense.

[Thorham]

therefore said hardware doesn't belong on a site that is supposed to be documenting Amiga specific hardware.

Sure, but you could argue that custom machines that are specifically built for AO4 may belong in their own section on the site, because they're Amiga related (while not being actual Amigas). Obviously, macs and pcs don't belong there at all.

but my definition of Amiga is broader.

Your definition of Amiga is irrelevant, because the makers of the original Amiga computers got to decide what an Amiga is, not you. The last Amigas are therefore the AGA Amigas. What you, me, or anyone else thinks, is entirely irrelevant.