In case, you missed it : AIX became 25 years old, today . AIX is IBM's name for their UNIX,  it stands for Advanced Interactive eXecutive and based on AT&T's UNIX System 5.2 and 5.3. I was not at the launch of the IBM RT (the computer on which it ran) but I know people that were apparently there was a lot of dry ice on the stage.  Nor was I with IBM at the time but working for a small software developer company.  I do remember, having a loan RT from IBM for porting our software and was impressed with the rugged machine.  We weren't given... [More]

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