AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) debuted in 1986 and is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM. AIX was originally released for the IBM RT PC RISC workstation. AIX now supports or has supported a wide variety of hardware platforms, including the IBM RS/6000 series and later POWER and PowerPC-based systems, IBM System i, System/370 mainframes, PS/2 personal computers, and the Apple Network Server. AIX is based on UNIX System V with 4.3BSD-compatible extensions. AIX is one of six commercial operating systems (AIX, macOS, Solaris, Inspur K-UX, HP-UX, and eulerOS) that have OS versions certified to The Open Group's UNIX 03 standard .
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