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AIX Alive

AIX
KindOperating system
Appeared1986
StatusAlive
CreatorIBM
FamilyUnix
PlatformRT → POWER
Sourcebitsavers.org ↗

IBM's Unix — JFS, LVM, and SMIT; still quietly running banks on POWER.

Descended from Research Unix
Ran on IBM RT PC
Created by IBM
Predecessors Research Unix

AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive, 1986) was IBM's Unix for the RT PC, then the RS/6000 — SVR4 with IBM extensions (the Logical Volume Manager, JFS journaled filesystems, smit, and the first commercial journaling FS).\n\nAIX on POWER is IBM's current Unix line — still shipping on Power10 hardware.

Sources

  1. bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AIX