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Originally known as '''Advanced Interactive eXecutive''', AIX is an operating system that is a derivative of [[UNIX]] and has been developed by [[IBM]] for computer equipment running on [[PowerPC]] and [[i86]] processors, with notably strong support for security and fault tolerance. The i86 versions have been dropped and the company currently only offers the OS on PowerPC based workstations and server hardware, that includes hardware specifically designed to run AIX but also [[System i]] server hardware and it can be run as a virtualised task on [[Z/OS]] mainframes. | Originally known as '''Advanced Interactive eXecutive''', AIX is an operating system that is a derivative of [[UNIX]] and has been developed by [[IBM]] for computer equipment running on [[PowerPC]] and [[i86]] processors, with notably strong support for security and fault tolerance. The i86 versions have been dropped and the company currently only offers the OS on PowerPC based workstations and server hardware, that includes hardware specifically designed to run AIX but also [[System i]] server hardware and it can be run as a virtualised task on [[Z/OS]] mainframes. | ||
AIX was notably the first OS to offer a journaling file system, a derivative of | AIX was notably the first OS to offer a journaling file system when it introduced JFS1 with AIX 3.1 in 1990, a derivative in the port of the later JFS2 filesystem exists in an OS/2 version as [[JFS]] and for a time in the mid to late 90's lots of system and development software was either ported from AIX to OS/2 or developed for both systems at the same time. | ||
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Revision as of 14:03, 19 January 2016
Originally known as Advanced Interactive eXecutive, AIX is an operating system that is a derivative of UNIX and has been developed by IBM for computer equipment running on PowerPC and i86 processors, with notably strong support for security and fault tolerance. The i86 versions have been dropped and the company currently only offers the OS on PowerPC based workstations and server hardware, that includes hardware specifically designed to run AIX but also System i server hardware and it can be run as a virtualised task on Z/OS mainframes.
AIX was notably the first OS to offer a journaling file system when it introduced JFS1 with AIX 3.1 in 1990, a derivative in the port of the later JFS2 filesystem exists in an OS/2 version as JFS and for a time in the mid to late 90's lots of system and development software was either ported from AIX to OS/2 or developed for both systems at the same time.
Links
- PERLZ.org - A site run by Dr. Michael Perzl that has ports for host of open source software. This is the site that used to be known as "oss4aix.org"
- See also