Hypothetical. C= doesn't get the Amiga. Then what.

[B00tDisk]

Or, to clarify things a bit let us say that Atari doesn't either.  Say the Amiga is on a 3rd path, or Apple buys it and integrates parts into the Macintosh or something.  But C= doesn't get it and there is no Amiga that we'd immediately recognize.

What does C= do next?

Pursue the C900 and make a go at Data General's (or even Sun or SGI's) marketshare?

Push the C65?

Push the Colt series, die on the vine as a PC-Clone manufacturer (which they essentially did anyway)?

Honestly, I think perhaps the C900 might have been their best bet (again, assuming no Amiga).  Presuming that the bad **** that went down due to management looking to raid and dump the company, Coherent, running this windowing system:

http://hack.org/mc/mgr/images/mgrscreen.png

...on a workstation as inexpensive as C= could provide them may well have served the company quite well.  Coherent/MGR was also targeted at x86 systems so a later transition to that platform would've been fairly easy, and put Commodore in a sort of Compaq or HP situation in the early 90s.

[B00tDisk]

There really isn't much left to Amiga, the IP has expired, the OS is permanently licensed to Hyperion.  The only thing AI or the Kouri estate have is the Amiga name for use in electronic devices.  That's nothing Apple or any large electronics firm would be interested in.  The company who's name shall not be mentioned doesn't need the Amiga name actually, but as they've already made deal with AI, there's really nothing stopping them from using it.

No...no, that's not at all what I'm talking about.  I'm talking about history.  What IF Commodore, back in the 1980s, didn't wind up with the Amiga.

[B00tDisk]

@B00tDisk
Hey, what system is the screenshot from?. Seems like an early x11 graphic desktop.

It's Manager ("MGR") which can run on top of Coherent.

http://hack.org/mc/mgr/

...which I believe was the target for Coherent on the C900.  Could be wrong, but it is one of those things we'll likely never know.