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It's very interesting to think AIX was ported to such a foreign architecture as it was so deeply tied to the R/S 6000 hardware. IBM Austin is where AIX was deve

It's very interesting to think AIX was ported to such a foreign architecture as it was so deeply tied to the R/S 6000 hardware. IBM Austin is where AIX was developed in the 90s.

Maursault 4y ago
AIX is still developed in Austin.
- sys_64738 4y ago
  Define "developed".
  - raverbashing 4y ago
    They get the maintenance money of people still running apps on there while changing/fixing one thing or another a year.
    - sys_64738 4y ago
      So really it's a sustaining org than NPE.
    - WireWater 4y ago
      Fixes are keeping up with CVEs fairly quickly. The process is actually pretty good.
hapless 4y ago
RS/6000 was the fourth AIX platform after x86 (AIX 1.x), IBM RT/ROMP (AIX 2.x), and the mainframe (AIX/370, AIX/390)
- trasz 4y ago
  How related to one another were those though? I remember AIX being expanded to “Any IBM UNIX”.
  - classichasclass 4y ago
    Not particularly. Any influence or overlap between them was in a strictly general sense. There are front end similarities but the internals are rather different, as would be expected for a rapidly evolving OS with lots of different authors. AIX didn't start to gel until around the 3.x or 4.x days.