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Operating system
AIX
Developer
IBM
Written in
C
OS family
Unix (System V)
Working state
Current
Source model
Closed source; formerly source available
Initial release
February 1986; 38 years ago (1986-02)[1]
Latest release
7.3 TL2 / November 2023; 6 months ago (2023-11)[2]
Marketing target
Workstation, Server
Platforms
Current: Power ISA Former: IBM ROMP, IBM POWER, PowerPC, x86 (IBM PS/2), System/370, ESA/390, IA-64 (Itanium)
Kernel type
Monolithic with dynamically loadable modules
Userland
POSIX / SUS
Default user interface
KornShell (ksh88),[3][4] Common Desktop Environment, (Plasma Workspaces and GNOME optional)
License
Proprietary
Official website
ibm.com/products/aix
History of IBM mainframe operating systems
Early mainframe computer OSes
GM OS & GM-NAA I/O (1955)
BESYS (1957)
UMES (1958)
SOS (1959)
IBSYS (1960)
MIT CTSS (1961)
7040/7044 Operating System (16/32K) (7040-PR-150)
1410/7010 Operating System (1410-PR-155)
Miscellaneous S/360 line OSes
BOS/360 (1965)
TOS/360 (1965)
TSS/360 (1967)
MTS (1967)
ORVYL (1967)
RACS (1965)
RAX (1966)
MUSIC (1972)
MUSIC/SP (1985)
DOS/360 and successors (1966)
DOS/360 (1965)
DOS/VS (1972)
DOS/VSE (1979)
VSE/AF (1979)
VSE/SP (1983, 1985)
VSE/ESA (1991)
z/VSE (2005)
VSEn (2021)
OS/360 and successors (1966)
MFT (1966)
MFT II (1968)
OS/VS1 (1972)
OS/VS1 BPE
MVT (1967)
65MP
OS/VS2R1 (SVS) (1972)
MVS (OS/VS2R2 and later) (1974)
MVS/SE (1978)
MVS/SE 2 (1979)
MVS/SP Version 1 (1980)
MVS/XA (1983)
MVS/ESA (1988)
OS/390 (1995)
z/OS (2000)
VM line
CP-40/CMS (1967)
CP-67/CMS (1967)
VP/CSS (1968)
VM/370 (1972)
VM/BSE (BSEPP)
VM/SE (SEPP)
VM/SP (1980)
VM/XA MA (1984)
VM/XA SF (1985)
VM/XA SP (1988)
VM/ESA (1990)
z/VM (2000)
TPF line
ACP (1967)
TPF (1979)
z/TPF (2005)
UNIX and Unix-like
UTS (1981)
AIX/370 (1990)
AIX/ESA (1991)
MVS/ESA OpenEdition (1993)
VM/ESA OpenEdition (1995)
OS/390 UNIX System Services (1996)
Linux (1999)
z/VM OpenExtensions (2000)
z/OS UNIX System Services (2001)
OpenSolaris (2008)
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AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive, pronounced /ˌeɪ.aɪ.ˈɛks/ay-eye-EKS[5]) is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM for several of its computer platforms.
^Prenessa Lowery (February 23, 2021). "35 Years of Innovation". IBM. Archived from the original on March 11, 2021. Retrieved February 24, 2021.
^"AIX 7.3.2 Release Notes". www.ibm.com. November 2023. Retrieved February 1, 2024.
^Casey Cannon; Scott Trent; Carolyn Jones (1999). Simply AIX 4.3. Prentice Hall PTR. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-13-021344-0.
^"sh Command". IBM Documentation. Retrieved January 21, 2023.
^"Unix Pronunciation". wordpress.com. January 29, 2010. Archived from the original on October 28, 2011. Retrieved November 18, 2011.
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