Emissary (Internet Software)
Encyclopedia
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.
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.
Each of these applications ran within Emissary and had its own helpfile.
Emails sent with Emissary had the following X-Mailer Header:
Internet suite
An Internet suite is an Internet-related software suite. Internet suites usually include a web browser, e-mail client , download manager, HTML editor, and an IRC client....
from Attachmate
Attachmate
Attachmate Corporation is a software company owned by an investment group led by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital, and Thoma Cressey Bravo. Attachmate focuses on terminal emulation, legacy modernization, managed file transfer, and enterprise fraud management software. Attachmate Corporation...
for Windows. It featured a web browser
Web browser
A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...
, FTP support, e-mail
E-mail
Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...
program, a newsreader program, and an HTML editor.
Though once considered a popular internet suite
Internet suite
An Internet suite is an Internet-related software suite. Internet suites usually include a web browser, e-mail client , download manager, HTML editor, and an IRC client....
, but it fell out of favor after Internet Explorer 3
Internet Explorer 3
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3 is a graphical web browser released on August 13, 1996 by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and on January 8, 1997 for Apple Mac OS . It began serious competition against Netscape Navigator in the first Browser war...
was released. Development was abandoned following the Microsoft antitrust case.
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 WYSIWYGWYSIWYGWYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product...
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 RAMRam-Animals:*Ram, an uncastrated male sheep*Ram cichlid, a species of freshwater fish endemic to Colombia and Venezuela-Military:*Battering ram*Ramming, a military tactic in which one vehicle runs into another...
- 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 intranetIntranetAn intranet is a computer network that uses Internet Protocol technology to securely share any part of an organization's information or network operating system within that organization. The term is used in contrast to internet, a network between organizations, and instead refers to a network...
use) - Modem: 28.8kbit/s or faster modemModemA modem is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information. The goal is to produce a signal that can be transmitted easily and decoded to reproduce the original digital data...
(for internetInternetThe Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
use)
Editions
The following are the editions that were sold:Edition | Release Date | Price | Medium | Developers |
---|---|---|---|---|
Emissary 1.1 | 1996 | ? | ? | The Wollongong Group Inc., Attachmate Internet Products Group |
Emissary 2.0 Desktop Edition | 1996 | Diskettes | Attachmate Attachmate Attachmate Corporation is a software company owned by an investment group led by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital, and Thoma Cressey Bravo. Attachmate focuses on terminal emulation, legacy modernization, managed file transfer, and enterprise fraud management software. Attachmate Corporation... |
|
Emissary 2.0 Office Edition | 1996 | about | Diskettes | Attachmate Attachmate Attachmate Corporation is a software company owned by an investment group led by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital, and Thoma Cressey Bravo. Attachmate focuses on terminal emulation, legacy modernization, managed file transfer, and enterprise fraud management software. Attachmate Corporation... |
Further reading
- Messaging Solutions, IT Solutions
External links
- Homepage(Archive.org)
- Emissary 2.0 International Evaluation, Evolt.org
- Emissary 2.0 FTP Mirror
- Stroud's Review of Emissary, Mecklermedia Corporation