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> Atari and Commodore both outsourced their OS development and it shows.

AFAIK, the only part of AmigaOS that was "outsourced" was that they used TripOS as the base underlying DOS, but AFAIK Intuition and Workbench were all done in-house by Commodore engineers.

> I dare anyone, then or now, to a) succinctly and accurately explain the difference between AmigaOS and AmigaDOS, and b) explain why that should matter in the first place

AmigaOS is the entire package, AmigaDOS is the underlying DOS that everything else runs on top of. It doesn't really matter to anyone, however, except those actually doing low-level AmigaOS development