Thedvanced Wenteractive eXecutive (AIX) is the marque of IBM's proprietary UNIX operating system. It at the start stood for "Advanced IBM Unix" internally, however probably a title was non approved per legal department & was after changed to "Advanced Interactive eXecutive".

Occasionally of AIX's additional popular features include commands like chuser, mkuser, rmuser, & similar items which leave user administration correspondent to file administration. AIX's level of trend lines for logical volume management is gradually existence added to the various free UNIX-like operating systems.

When of AIX 5L Cinque.Three, a operating models might shell when follows: 64 processors Deuce TB main memory JFS2: Xvi TB maximal supported file system JFS2: Sixteen TB utmost supported file size

Release history
Many different versions of AIX keep around existed all over period, a select few existence yet eliminated. AIX V1, which ran on the IBM RT/PC (AIX/RT) appeared in 1986. It was according to System V Release 3. Since 1989, AIX has been the OS for the RS/6000 line of workstations and servers (AIX/6000). When you took AIX development, features from either Quatern.IiBSD and 4.3BSD were merged within by IBM & INTERACTIVE Systems Corporation (under contract to IBM).

Supporting Architectures
PowerPC, POWER

Versions
AIX 5L Fivesome.Trey, August 2004 NFS Version 4 support Advanced Accounting Virtual SCSI Virtual Ethernet Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) support Micro-Partitioning support JFS2 quota support JFS2 filesystem shrink support AIX 5L Fin.Two, October 2002 Minimal level mandatory for POWER5 hardware Trend lines for MPIO Fibre Channel disks iSCSI Initiator software Dynamic LPAR support AIX 5L Cinque.Unity, Might 2001 Minimal level mandatory for POWER4 devices & a go release that supported Micro Channel architecture Introduction of 64-bit kernel JFS2 Static LPAR support A L stands for Linux affinity

AIX Tetrad.Leash.Tercet, September 1999 Added on the internet backup function Workload Management ( WLM ) AIX Quatern.Trinity.Deuce, October 1998 AIX Iv.Trinity.Single, April 1998 AIX Iv.Ternion, October 1997 Trend lines for 64-bit architecture AIX Quaternary.Two.Ace, April 1997 NFS Version 3 support AIX Four.Deuce, Might 1996 AIX Tetrad.I.Phoebe, August 1996 AIX Quaternity.Ace.Four, October 1995 AIX Quaternary.Single.Ternion, July 1995 AIX Quaternary.I.I, October 1994 AIX Foursome.Ace, August 1994 AIX v4, 1994 AIX v3.Two 1992 AIX v3.1 Introduction of Journaled File Technique (JFS) AIX v3, 1990 AIX v2 AIX v1, 1986

Interfaces

Graphical

A Common Desktop Environment (CDE) is the default graphical user interface within AIX systems. When section of Linux Affinity & a loose AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications (ATLA), open-source KDE and GNOME desktop are besides available.

Text Based
SMIT, also referred to as smitty, occurs as text depending Technique Management Interface Thing for AIX. It allows the user to navigate the menu hierarchy of commands, like than using the command line. Experient formulas administrators produce have of a F6 command which generates the command line requisite for complex tasks.