> Mike B. at Cloanto now owns the Amiga trademarks.

Looking closer, it's a little more complicated:
- US-based Cloanto Corp. (as opposed to Italy-based Cloanto IT srl) owns the AmigaOS 3.1 copyright.
- C-A Acquisition owns the Amiga trademarks.
- Mike Battilana is majority owner of Cloanto IT srl, Cloanto Corp. and C-A Acquisition.

> Aeon has an excellent contractor designing its boards
> (I've known Paul longer than I've known Trevor).

Make that "had" instead of "has". Both Paul and Adam left Ultra Varisys years ago. And even Ultra Varisys is no more AFAIK, it's just the parent Ultra Electronics / Ultra PCS (Precision Control Systems) now. Of course, A-Eon may try to commission Ultra for any future board design.

> The specs for the best system McEwen quoted were surpassed by the X1000.

...except in terms of CPU clock rate, non-PEG PCIe slots and Ethernet :-)

https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=7183&forum=3&start=1003

> You wouldn't need the Friedens' kernel

It's been Trevor's kernel for a while, mind you :-)

> the MorphOS micro kernel is better

...but not very Amiga-like, that's why it needs the A-Box running on top providing an Amiga-like environment (including Amiga Exec reimplementation), whereas ExecSG does not.

> Reggae could be upgraded or replaced.

Replaced by what?

> Blackbird should eventually be able to emulate PowerMacs, SAM460s,
> or the X5000 with ease and plenty of threads to spare

Full emulation should work but is rather slow. CPU virtualization is hindered by the Book3s vs. Book3e issue, so while virtualizing G4/MPC74xx on POWER9 works (as shown with QEMU/KVM-PR on Talos II), virtualizing PPC4x0 or e5500 on POWER9 does not. Furthermore, there is no Cyrus/X5000 emulation target yet.