> the TalosII Lite costs $95 more than an X5000.

...and includes an "EATX chassis with 500W ATX power supply", so it's actually cheaper.

> Using the hypervisor we could even have little endian sessions running
> alongside big endian sessions [...]. Our current software would run on
> this without qemu, [...] we'd have access to a little endian format
> that would eliminate the issues with WebKit

This may be possible on the X5000 as well. The e5500 can be run little-endian and has a hypervisor.

> I should be able to emulate an X5000 in the near future anyway. And if
> that can be done, then MorphOS can probably be run on Power 9 whether
> the development team supports a port or not.

In terms of MorphOS, will a virtualized X5000 have any advantage over a virtualized Sam460?

> I could get this board to run AROS, which would bring the possibility of future
> enhancements like SMP, alternative video card support, better OpenGL
> support...end user development participation.

Why would AROS need the Talos II for this?

> AROS on PPC [...] Linux hosted version could be made to run on most
> of our current platforms.

Yes, the hosted version should run without adaptation everywhere Linux runs.