Table of Contents
1. AIX
1.0 General concepts
1.1 SMIT, system administration
1.2 Backups, tape
1.3 Memory and process management
1.4 Shells, commands, man pages, InfoExplorer
1.5 Video, Graphics, X11
1.6 Networks and communications
1.7 LVM
1.8 AIX 4.x
1.9 Miscellaneous
2. C/C++
3. Fortran and other compilers
4. GNU and Public Domain software
5. Third party products
6. Miscellaneous other stuff
8. Program listings
9. Contributors
1.0 General concepts
Subject: 1.000: The AIX operating system - what is it?
This is best answered by reading the text files in /usr/lpp/bos. The README file there contains general information and the bsd file contain useful information if you know BSD and/or System V.
The last release for the RT PC is 2.2.1. The latest release for PS/2s and Intel architecture machines is AIX 1.3; for PS/2s only, 1.2.1. For the RS/6000, there are three major levels, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, and various intermediate levels. IBM has dropped support for 3.1.
For those who don't have a copy of /usr/lpp/bos/README or bsd, I'll sumarize: IBM tried to follow IEEE, POSIX 1003.1, ANSI C, FIPS and then X/Open Issue 3. Beyond that, AIX is a combination of System V and BSD.
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