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Emissary (Internet Software)

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Developer(s)
  
Attachmate/Wollongong

Available in
  
English

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

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.

Contents

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.

Releases

The following are releases of Emissary 1.x:

  • Emissary 1.0
  • Emissary 1.1

    • Emissary 2.0

    Emissary 2.0 was a collection of six applications:

  • 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.

    Features

    Emissary 2.0 had the following features:

    Technical

    Web pages created with Emissary had the following meta tag:

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

    Releases

  • Emissary 2.0 Public Beta
  • Emissary 2.0 Public BETA 1
  • Emissary 2.0 beta 1
  • Emissary 2.0 beta 2
  • Emissary 2.0 beta 3
  • Emissary 2.0 beta 4
  • 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:

  • 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.

    Editions

    The following are the editions that were sold:

    References

    Emissary (Internet Software) Wikipedia
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