Aix Introduction
AIX
(Advanced Interactive eXecutive) is a series of proprietary Unix
operating systems developed and sold by IBM for several of its computer
platforms. Originally released for the IBM 6150 RISC workstation, AIX
now supports or has supported a wide variety of hardware platforms,
including the IBM 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 System V with
4.3BSD-compatible extensions. It is one of four commercial operating
systems that are presently certified to The Open Group's UNIX 03
standard. (The others are Mac OS X, Solaris and HP-UX.)
The
AIX family of operating systems debuted in 1986, became the standard
operating system for the RS/6000 series on its launch in 1990, and is
still actively developed by IBM. It is currently supported on IBM Power
Systems alongside IBM i and Linux. AIX was the first operating system to
utilize journaling file systems, and IBM has continuously enhanced the
software with features like processor, disk and network virtualization,
dynamic hardware resource allocation (including fractional processor
units), and reliability engineering ported from its mainframe designs.
Aix Road Map:
