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AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive)

AIX is an open operating system from IBM that is based on a version of UNIX. AIX/ESA was designed for IBM's System/390 or large server hardware platform. AIX/6000 is an operating system that runs on IBM's workstation platform, the RISC System/6000.

This was last updated in October 2005
Posted by: Margaret Rouse

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