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AIX
Advanced Interactive eXecutive (AIX) is an enterprise-class UNIX operating system for the POWER and PowerPC IBM processor architecture and also IBM Servers: pSeries, System P and Power Systems.
| First released | 1986 |
| Developed by | IBM |
| Latest stable version | AIX 7 |
| Open-source | Yes |
Interesting facts
AIX was the first operating system that had a log file system, and IBM continually improved software with features such as processor, disk and network virtualization, the allocation of dynamic hardware resources (including fractional processors) and engineering reliability ported from its mainframes.
