My reasons for offering to help fund the purchase of 1 or 2 X1000 motherboards was/is purely selfish in nature, as I would like to be able to run both AmigaOS4.x and MorphOS3.x on the same computer.

I did not expect any of the MorphOS Dev. Team members to jump at this offer, but you never know until you ask. I agree with almost everyone else here, that the resources should be used elsewhere and that improving what we already have is far more important than supporting a limited production, EOL product.

The only thing the X1000 has going for it is the apparent larger number of PCIe lanes, or bandwidth to the graphic card slot, which if I understand the specifications of the proposed new systems from A-Eon, will be slightly lower for the Cyrus based systems.

I am not surprised, or disappointed to read pega-1's response that this subject has been discussed and rejected by the Dev. Team. It is obviously the right choice. The only reason I suggested it in the first place, was due to the similar surprising previous announcement that the SAM460ex would be supported at some time in the future, which I believe is just as unproductive as any port to the X1000 would be. I had a very small hope that perhaps one or two of the Dev. Team members would accept free X1000 motherboards and perhaps some additional bounty money to complete a port to the X1000, similar to how the G5 port came about, but as I have already stated, I am not surprised that the Dev. Team members are making the sensible choice to NOT support the X1000. If they are going to support any A-Eon products, it would make far more sense to support the Cyrus based systems in the future, when they are finally released.

Also, only the Dev. Team members would know if a port to the X1000 would be more difficult, or easier, to complete than the currently stalled port to the SAM460ex system, so there was no harm in asking and trying to gauge how much support there might be from other X1000 owners. It is my uneducated guess that even though the X1000 cost far more than the SAM460ex systems, I believe that there may be more X1000's in the hands of Amiga users than current sales of the (also expensive, in my opinion) SAM460ex systems.

Finally, I thought how great it would be to see direct comparisons of AmigaOS4.x vs MorphOS3.x on the X1000 hardware, and what a great promotion tool it would be if a MorphOS user, or developer were the first person to find a practical use for the X1000's Xena/Xorro slot and co-processor.

Sorry if my suggestion upset anyone who rightly wants the Dev. Team to concentrate on improvements and new features and software, and not yet another hardware platform. I agree with all of you that it is not the best use of resources, but I would still like to see it happen "Some Day".