Among other variants, IBM later produced AIX Version 3 ( also known as AIX / 6000 ), based on System V Release 3, for their IBM POWER-based RS / 6000 platform.

AIX Version 4, introduced in 1994, added symmetric multiprocessing with the introduction of the first RS / 6000 SMP servers and continued to evolve through the 1990s, culminating with AIX 4. 3. 3 in 1999.

* IBM SOMobjects Developer's Toolkit Version 3. 0 for Windows NT, OS / 2 Warp, and AIX Documentation

AIX 6 was announced in May 2007 and ran an open beta from June 2007 until the general availability ( GA ) of AIX 6. 1 on November 9, 2007.

Major new features in AIX 6. 1 included full role-based access control, workload partitions ( which enable application mobility ), enhanced security ( Addition of AES encryption type for NFS v3 and v4 ) and Live Partition Mobility on the POWER6 hardware.

With the introduction of the ESA / 390 architecture, AIX / 370 was replaced by AIX / ESA in 1991, which was based on OSF / 1, and also ran on the System / 390 platform.

* AIX 4. 3. 1, April 24, 1998

* AIX 4. 2. 1, April 25, 1997

* AIX 4. 1. 5, November 8, 1996

* AIX 4. 1. 4, October 20, 1995

* AIX 4. 1. 3, July 7, 1995

* AIX 4. 1. 1, October 28, 1994

* AIX 4. 1, August 12, 1994

* AIX 3. 1, February 1990

* AIX PS / 2 v1. 1, 1989

* AIX version 6. 1 information center

* AIX version 6. 1 overview

Another example is System Workload Partitions ( WPARs ), introduced in the IBM AIX 6. 1 operating system.

IBM used OSF / 1 as the basis of the AIX / ESA operating system for System / 370 and System / 390 mainframes.

IBM introduced JFS with the initial release of AIX version 3. 1 in February, 1990.

The operating system was IBM AIX 1. 5L.

Apple never ported A / UX to PowerPC Macintoshes ( though A / UX 4. 0 was rumored to have been an OSF / 1 adaptation ), and the company all but abandoned it by 1996, preferring to use a slightly modified version of IBM ’ s AIX system on their mid-90s Apple Network Servers.

The 800-series can run Windows NT 3. 5 ( probably 4. 0 as well ), OS / 2, AIX 4. 14, Solaris Desktop 2. 5. 1 PowerPC Edition, and Linux.

The system was introduced in 1986 as the RT PC ( RISC Technology Personal Computer ) and ran AIX 1. x and 2. x, the Academic Operating System ( AOS ), or the Pick operating system.

The AIX family of operating systems debuted in 1986, became the standard operating system for the RS / 6000 series on its launch in 1990, and is still actively developed by IBM.

* AIX v1. 0, 1986

AIX ( Advanced Interactive eXecutive, pronounced ) is a series of proprietary Unix operating systems developed and sold by IBM for several of its computer platforms.

Originally released for the IBM 6150 RISC workstation, AIX now supports or has supported a wide variety of hardware platforms, including the IBM RS / 6000 series and later IBM POWER and PowerPC-based systems, IBM System i, System / 370 mainframes, PS / 2 personal computers, and the Apple Network Server.

Since 1990, AIX has served as the primary operating system for the RS / 6000 series ( later renamed IBM eServer pSeries, then IBM System p, and now IBM Power Systems ).

A beta test version of AIX 5L for IA-64 systems was released, but according to documents released in the SCO v. IBM lawsuit, less than forty licenses for the finished Monterey Unix were ever sold before the project was terminated in 2002.

In 2003, the SCO Group alleged that ( among other infractions ) IBM had misappropriated licensed source code from UNIX System V Release 4 for incorporation into AIX ; SCO subsequently withdrew IBM's license to develop and distribute AIX.

The original AIX ( sometimes called AIX / RT ) was developed for the IBM 6150 RT workstation by IBM in conjunction with Interactive Systems Corporation, who had previously ported UNIX System III to the IBM PC for IBM as PC / IX.

AIX / 370 was IBM's third attempt to offer Unix-like functionality for their mainframe line, specifically the System / 370 ( the prior versions were a TSS / 370 based Unix system developed jointly with AT & T c. 1980, and VM / IX a VM / 370 based system developed jointly with Interactive Systems Corporation c. 1984 ).

As part of Linux Affinity and the free AIX Toolboxes for Linux Applications ( ATLA ), open-source KDE Plasma Workspaces and GNOME desktop are also available.

SMIT is the System Management Interface Tool for AIX.

* AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications

* Rootvg. net-Independent Portal for AIX & POWER

* The original Star Desktop evolved into the ViewPoint Desktop and later became GlobalView which was ported to various Unix platforms, such as SunOS Unix and AIX, A Mesa to C compiler was written and the resulting code compiled for the target platform.

* X11 – Qt for X Window System ( GNU / Linux, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, etc.

The unified product line is called IBM Power Systems and features support for the IBM i ( previously known as i5 / OS or OS / 400 ), AIX and GNU / Linux operating systems.

AIX was the first operating system to utilize journaling file systems, and IBM has continuously enhanced the software with features like processor, disk and network virtualization, dynamic hardware resource allocation ( including fractional processor units ), and reliability engineering ported from its mainframe designs.

In developing AIX, IBM and Interactive Systems Corporation ( whom IBM contracted ) also incorporated source code from 4. 2 and 4. 3 BSD UNIX.

In the late 1990s, under Project Monterey, IBM and the Santa Cruz Operation planned to integrate AIX and UnixWare into a single 32-bit / 64-bit multiplatform UNIX with particular emphasis on running on Intel IA-64 ( Itanium ) architecture CPUs.

AIX was a component of the 2003 SCO v. IBM lawsuit, in which the SCO Group filed a lawsuit against IBM, alleging IBM contributed SCO's intellectual property to the Linux codebase.