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INTRODUCTION
AIX short for Advanced Interactive eXecutive was first entered into
the market by IBM in February 1990. AIX is
an implementation of Unix derived from both AT&T Unix System
V and 4.3 BSD. AIX offers the Korn (ksh)
shell, Bourne (sh) and C (csh) shells however defaults to the Korn
shell. AIXL (AIX 5L) is IBM's key element to IBM's AIX / Linux
affinity strategy, IBM is working to implement Linux API compatibility
within AIX and deliver a common set of application development tools
and utilities across AIX and Linux.
OVERVIEW
| Type
of Computer |
| AIX primarily designed for medium to large scale servers and
mainframes. However, can also be used in workstations. |
| Supported
hardware |
| Supports standard peripherals: PCI Slots, SCSI, PS/2 keyboard and
mouse, Ethernet. |
Platform |
Power1, Power2, Power3, PowerPC, RS64, P2SC
| Address Space |
Multiple CPU's |
| 64-bit |
SMP and
MPP available. |
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| Maximum
memory |
| 16GB
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| Maximum
file size |
Maximum file size =
Unknown
Maximum file system size = Unknown |
Other |
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*The above overview is based off the latest version of AIX
unless otherwise stated,
previous versions my not have the same overview.
AIX VERSIONS
Version |
Brief information |
| AIX/ESA |
Runs native on S/370 and S/390
mainframes and is based on OSF/1. |
| 1.x |
For 386 PS/2 |
| 2.x |
For PS RTs |
| 3.x |
AIX 3.1 originally released in 1990 For RS/6000 includes paging kernel, logical volume manager. |
| 3.2 |
Adds TLI/STREAMS. SV-based with many enhancements. |
| 4.1x |
Includes support for PowerPC |
| 4.2x |
AIX 4.3.2 originally released October 5, 1998 |
| 4.3x |
The original release of AIX 4.3 was released in 1997 and AIX
4.3.3 release in October 1999. New features include 3D-OpenGL,
Phigs, 64-bit support, Java implementation and up to 16GB of RAM
support |
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For updates and/or patches for AIX please see IBM's
page. |
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