Key facts
- Developer
- IBM
- Written in
- C
- Os family
- Unix ( System V )
- Working state
- Current
- Source model
- Closed source ; formerly source available
- Initial release
- February 1986 ; 40 years ago ( 1986-02 )
- Latest release
- 7.3 TL4 (7.3.4) / December 2025 ; 6 months ago ( 2025-12 )
- Marketing target
- Workstation , Server
- Supported 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), Common Desktop Environment , ( Plasma Workspaces and GNOME optional)
- License
- Proprietary
- Official website
- ibm .com /products /aix
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Encyclopedic overview
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AIX (pronounced /ˌeɪ.aɪ.ˈɛks/ ay-eye-EKS) is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM since 1986. The name stands for "Advanced Interactive eXecutive". Current versions are designed to work with Power ISA based server and workstation computers such as IBM's Power line.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “IBM AIX” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.