A kludge that tries to adhere to both the
BSD and
AT&T unix tastes. Also one of my favourite
unices. It has borrowed some features from 'real'
operating systems, including a
virtual machine-ish approach to low-level functions like
load balancing between processors, and an internal
database for the sub-os/
VM level configuration (like the
windows registry) rather than
config files.
It also uses
SMIT, a nice
menu-driven configuration tool that builds scripts in
Korn shell (AIX' native shell) and lets the
adminstrator edit the actions before committing the actions. For a novice AIXer, familiar with other
unices, this is extremely helpful since many commands have strange names and
args.
Powerful, but not a very clean unix
implementation. It tries to provide both
BSD and
System V command sets by including redundant
flags for most commands, but has a number of non-standard replacements for some commands as well.