Emissary (Internet Software)

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Emissary
File:Emissarylogo.gif
Developer(s) Attachmate/Wollongong
Initial release 1995
Last release 2.0 / August 28, 1996 (1996-08-28)
Development status Discontinued and unmaintained
Operating system Windows 3.x, 95, 98, NT 3.5/NT 3.51[1][2]
Available in English
Type Internet Suite
License Proprietary
Website Homepage(Archive.org)

Emissary was a popular early commercial internet suite from Attachmate for Windows. It featured a web browser, FTP support, e-mail program, a newsreader program, and an HTML editor.[3]

Though once considered a popular internet suite, but it fell out of favor after Internet Explorer 3 was released. Development was abandoned following the Microsoft antitrust case.[4][5][6]

Emissary 1.x

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Releases

The following are releases of Emissary 1.x:[7]

  • Emissary 1.0
  • Emissary 1.1[8]

Emissary 2.0

Emissary 2.0 was a collection of six applications:[6]

  • File Management - An FTP client
  • Host Access - Remote access via TELNET
  • Mail - An email client with POP3 and SMTP support as well as an address book
  • News - A newsgroup reader
  • Web Surfing - An HTML 3 web browser
  • Hypertext editor - A WYSIWYG html editor

Each of these applications ran within Emissary and had its own helpfile.[9]

Features

Emissary 2.0 had the following features:[10][11]

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Technical

Web pages created with Emissary had the following meta tag:

<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Emissary 2.0">

Emails sent with Emissary had the following X-Mailer Header: X-Mailer: Emissary V2.00, by Attachmate Corp.[14]

Releases

  • Emissary 2.0 Public Beta [15]
  • Emissary 2.0 Public BETA 1[16]
  • Emissary 2.0 beta 1 [17]
  • Emissary 2.0 beta 2 [17]
  • Emissary 2.0 beta 3 [17]
  • Emissary 2.0 beta 4 [18]
  • Emissary 2.0 International Evaluation
  • Emissary 2.0 Desktop Edition
  • Emissary Version 2.0 Official Release [90 day evaluation]

System Requirements

Emissary 2.0 has the following system requirements:[2][19][20][21]

  • Processor: An IBM PC 80486 or higher
  • Ram: 8MB of RAM
  • Hard drive space: 15MB to 25MB free hard drive space
  • Driver: WinSock v1.1-compliant TCP/IP stack.
  • Network: an ODI or NDIS-compatible network card (for intranet use)
  • Modem: 28.8kbit/s or faster modem (for internet use)

Reception

The internet suite was well received.[22]

Editions

The following are the editions that were sold:[19][23][24][25][26]

Edition Release Date Price Medium Developers
Emissary 1.1 1996  ?  ? The Wollongong Group Inc., Attachmate Internet Products Group
Emissary 2.0 Desktop Edition 1996 US$149 Diskettes Attachmate
Emissary 2.0 Office Edition 1996 about US$400 Diskettes Attachmate

References

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  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  8. ↑ http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-17462922.html
  9. ↑ Take from installation directory
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  11. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  12. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  13. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  14. ↑ http://listserv.cddc.vt.edu/gnu/ftp/pub/gnu/windows/emacs/docs/ntemacs/todo/gdb
  15. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  16. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  18. ↑ http://professionalsweb.com/resources/ProdProfile.asp?ProductID=73
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  20. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  21. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  22. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  23. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  24. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  25. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  26. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

Further reading

External links

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