AIX Celebrates it's 25th Birthday! : 21st Jan 2011

Twenty five years ago on January 21, 1986, IBM Austin launched a new operating system called IBM RT Personal Computer Advanced Interactive eXecutive -- better known as AIX--with a new system called the IBM RT PC.

Over the ensuing years we have seen significant advances in the evolution of AIX:

• 1990, AIX V3 on the RS/6000 on the first POWER processor
• 1994, AIX V4 with support for symmetric multiprocessing
• 2001, AIX 5L provides logical partitioning virtualization on POWER4
• 2007, AIX 6 contains workload partitions
• 2010, AIX 7 has built in clustering and the ability to host an earlier version of AIX

Happy Birthday AIX!