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Developer(s) | Attachmate/The Wollongong Group |
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Initial release | 1995 |
Final release | 2.0 / August 28, 1996 (1996-08-28) |
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 at the Wayback Machine (archived October 29, 1996) |
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, it fell out of favor after Internet Explorer 3 was released. Development was abandoned following the Microsoft antitrust case.[4][5][6]
The following are releases of Emissary 1.x:[7]
Emissary 2.0 was a collection of six applications:[6]
Each of these applications ran within Emissary and had its own helpfile.[9]
Emissary 2.0 had the following features:[10][11]
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.
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Emissary 2.0 has the following system requirements:[2][19][20][21]
The internet suite was well received.[22]
The following are the editions that were sold:[19][23][24][25][26]
Edition | Release Date | Price | Medium | Developers |
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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 |