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The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
AIDX
<abuse, operating system> /aydkz/ A derogatory term for
{IBM}'s perverted version of {Unix}, {AIX}, especially for the
AIX 3.? used in the {IBM RS/6000} series (some hackers think
it is funnier just to pronounce "AIX" as "aches"). A victim
of the dreaded "hybridism" disease, this attempt to combine
the two main currents of the Unix stream ({BSD} and {USG
Unix}) became a monstrosity to haunt system administrators'
dreams. For example, if new accounts are created while many
users are logged on, the load average jumps quickly over 20
due to silly implementation of the user databases.
For a quite similar disease, compare {HP-SUX}. Also, compare
{Macintrash} {Nominal Semidestructor}, {Open DeathTrap},
{ScumOS}, {sun-stools}.
[{Jargon File}]
(1995-04-13)