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 USGUnix) 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)