Access Managed Environment (or "A.M.E.") is a user-management utility
for the early Macintosh.
While there was a standalone version of A.M.E. sold at retail, this
download was originally bundled with one of Peripheral Land Inc.'s
SCSI disk drives. From the accompanying read me file, "PLI/A.M.E.
Differences":
> PLI's special version of A.M.E. differs from the standard version of
> A.M.E. in three ways. They are:
>
> 1\. The standard version employs a unique serial number/pack count
> strategy to ensure only the correct number of A.M.E.'s with a given
> serial number are running on a network. The PLI version does not
> have a unique serial number and so it does not check the network.
> 2\. The PLI version requires that A.M.E. boots from a PLI disk
> drive. Because all PLI drives protected by this version of A.M.E.
> share the same serial number, they share the same master
> install/remove key disk.
> 3\. The PLI version does not support DES, the Federal data
> encryption standard.
The software includes two disks, the main A.M.E. diskette, as well as
Virus Rx antivirus software. (Additional sound effect files for use
with A.M.E. are also included on the Virus Rx diskette.) Both disks
are bootable into Finder 6.1.4, System 6.0.4.
Download includes two 800k DiskCopy 4.2 disk images taken from
original media, compressed with StuffIt 1.5.1, and encoded as BinHex
4.0.
(v1.1 for PLI disk drives)
Compatibility
Architecture: 68k
Requires a connected SCSI disk drive in order to run. The PLI version
purportedly requires a PLI drive in order to function. According to
the included read me, it was possible at the time of release to
contact the original developers, Casady & Greene, in order to convert
the PLI version of A.M.E. into the standard version.
