AIX for Apple Network Servers

AIX for Apple Network Servers is a version of IBM's (AIX) operating system that was released in 1996 to run on Apple Computer's PowerPC-based Network Servers.

History
AIX is based on Unix and was first released commercially in 1986 to support the  RISC workstation. By 1990, it was ported to support, predecessors to the PowerPC chips used by Apple.

The Apple Network Servers began shipping in February 1996 with AIX 4.1.4 (codenamed "Harpoon") and could be updated to version 4.1.4.1 and finally, 4.1.5, which patched a serious. AIX is not supported by Power Macintosh systems.