Wednesday, June 23, 2010

What is AIX?

SOME FACTS ABOUT AIX:

  • AIX stands for Advanced Interactive eXecutive
  • It is an IBM flavour of UNIX
  • Initial version was released in 1986
  • First Stable AIX OS was launched in 1990 for RS/6000
  • It was released for IBM 6150 RISC workstation initially
  • Now it supports RS/6000 series and later IBM POWER and PowerPC - based systems, IBM system i, System/370 mainframes, PS/2 personal computers and the Apple Network Server
  • AIX is based on Unix Systtem V
  • Latest stable AIX version is 7.1

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