tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48903771731304523952024-09-21T03:29:34.354-07:00Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4890377173130452395.post-46451455073033991932011-11-07T04:06:00.000-08:002011-11-09T00:41:50.244-08:00<script type="text/javascript"> hopfeed_template=''; hopfeed_align='LEFT'; hopfeed_type='IFRAME'; hopfeed_affiliate_tid='012345678901234567890123'; hopfeed_affiliate='musacb'; hopfeed_fill_slots='true'; hopfeed_height='120'; hopfeed_width='468'; hopfeed_cellpadding='5'; hopfeed_rows='1'; hopfeed_cols='2'; hopfeed_font='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Sans Serif'; hopfeed_font_size='9pt'; hopfeed_font_color='000000'; hopfeed_border_color='FFFFFF'; hopfeed_link_font_color='3300FF'; hopfeed_link_font_hover_color='3300FF'; hopfeed_background_color='FFFFFF'; hopfeed_keywords='unix'; hopfeed_path='http://musacb.hopfeed.com'; hopfeed_link_target='_blank'; </script><br /> <script type="text/javascript" src='http://musacb.hopfeed.com/script/hopfeed.js'></script><br /> <br /> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>AIX</b> (<b>Advanced Interactive eXecutive</b>, pronounced "a i ex"<sup class="Template-Fact" style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources from July 2011"><span style="color: #0645ad;">citation needed</span></span></a></i>]</sup>) is a series of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_software" title="Proprietary software"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">proprietary</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix" title="Unix"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">Unix</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">operating systems</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> developed and sold by </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM" title="IBM"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">IBM</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> for several of its computer platforms. </span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Originally released for the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_6150_RT" title="IBM 6150 RT"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">IBM 6150</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC" title="RISC"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">RISC</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workstation" title="Workstation"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">workstation</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, AIX now supports or has supported a wide variety of hardware platforms, including the IBM </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS/6000" title="RS/6000"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">RS/6000</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> series and later </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_POWER" title="IBM POWER"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">IBM POWER</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC" title="PowerPC"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">PowerPC</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">-based systems, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_i" title="IBM System i"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">IBM System i</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System/370" title="System/370"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">System/370</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> mainframes, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_System/2" title="IBM Personal System/2"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">PS/2</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_computer" title="Personal computer"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">personal computers</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, and the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Network_Server" title="Apple Network Server"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">Apple Network Server</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">. </span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">AIX is based on </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_V" title="UNIX System V"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">UNIX System V</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> with </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4.3BSD" title="4.3BSD"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">4.3BSD</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">-compatible extensions. It is one of four commercial operating systems that are presently certified to </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Group" title="The Open Group"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">The Open Group</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">'s UNIX 03 standard. (The others are Mac </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X" title="OS X"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">OS X</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_(operating_system)" title="Solaris (operating system)"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">Solaris</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-UX" title="HP-UX"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">HP-UX</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">.)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIX#cite_note-0"><span style="color: #0645ad;"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></span></a></sup></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">The AIX family of operating systems debuted in 1986, became the standard operating system for the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS/6000" title="RS/6000"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">RS/6000</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> series on its launch in 1990, and is still actively developed by IBM. It is currently supported on </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Power_Systems" title="IBM Power Systems"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">IBM Power Systems</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> alongside </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_i" title="IBM i"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">IBM i</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux" title="Linux"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">Linux</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">. </span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">AIX was the first operating system to utilize </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journaling_file_system" title="Journaling file system"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">journaling file systems</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, and IBM has continuously enhanced the software with features like processor, disk and network </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualization" title="Virtualization"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">virtualization</span></a><span style="font-size: large;">, dynamic hardware resource allocation (including fractional processor units), and reliability engineering ported from its </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainframe_computer" title="Mainframe computer"><span style="color: #0645ad; font-size: large;">mainframe</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> designs.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIX#cite_note-1"><span style="color: #0645ad;"><span>[</span>2<span>]</span></span></a></sup></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com