It certainly is an interesting development. To me it signals two positive things potentially happening behind the scenes:
1. A-Eon, true to its form, has provided adequate documentation on the Cyrus Plus board to the Morphos team to make porting the OS as easy as it can possibly be.
2. The Morphos team, aiming for an ISA transition are making the Morphos code more portable, which should yield fruits in a relatively low-cost porting effort to the Cyrus Plus.
The results being:
- The Morphos team gets to test advances they are putting in the OS on the path from 3.7 to 3.10
- Morphos users have more hardware choice available
- A-Eon places itself as the new hardware centre for multiple operating systems
- Hyperion Entertainment will have some competition for the same hardware
The $100,000 question remains: Which will be the first to bring multi-core support on the X5000 et al?
