Things have been quiet in MorphOS-land for a while now. I’m speaking in terms of new OS releases. The current release (as of this writing), is MorphOS3.7, which is a fantastic OS. I run it on a G4 PowerBook.

There has only been a single platform that would allow for both Amiga OS 4.x and MorphOS to run side-by-side, and that is the Pegasos II system. At the time of MorphOS 2.3 (around 2009), someone did some benchmarks and found that MorphOS really ran a lot faster than the OS4.1 of that time (not sure which update would have been around then). You can read it here (in French):

A while ago, I pondered about the power of the X5000 that A-Eon was building for OS 4.2. One of the comparisons was the 5040 CPU that a future update to the X5000 would have compared to the fastest G5 from IBM (which is the currently fastest machine supported by MorphOS). The 5040 in the x5000 would outrun the G5, but I think only if more than a single core was supported.

Both the OS4 team and the MorphOS developers have talked about multi-cpu support (SMP), but neither has demonstrated anything.

I think the battle between the two OS’s will heat up when the x5000 is released as we have seen a leaked rumor about MorphOS support for the x5000 coming.

Is this fake or not?