X-Nico

unusual facts about AIX operating system



Galahad library

Support is provided for many operating systems, including Digital UNIX, Tru64 UNIX, Linux, HP-UX, AIX, IRIX and Solaris, and for a variety of popular Fortran 90 compilers on these platforms and operating systems.

IBM 6150 RT

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.

IBM Open Class

IOC was an extensive set of C++ classes used to build CLI and GUI applications which could then be easily cross-compiled to OS/2, Microsoft Windows, and AIX.

PC-based IBM-compatible mainframes

Later, IBM introduced the Personal/370 (aka P/370), a single slot 32-bit MCA card that can be added to a PS/2 or RS/6000 computer to run System/370 OSs (like MUSIC/SP, VM, VSE) parallel to OS/2 (in PS/2) or AIX (in RS/6000) supporting multiple concurrent users.

Z/Journal

Its publisher, Thomas Communications, Inc., also publishes the Xephon Update series of mainframe-based newsletters on DB2, CICS, z/OS (formerly MVS), WebSphere (formerly MQ), TCP/SNA, RACF, and AIX.


see also

FileNet

In the early 1990s, FileNet introduced a more "open" version of its WorkFlo Business System software, the Series 6500, that ran on the IBM RS/6000 platform and the AIX operating system.