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/aydkz/ A derogatory term forIBM's perverted version of Unix, AIX, especially for theAIX 3.? used in the IBM RS/6000 series (some hackers thinkit is funnier just to pronounce "AIX" as "aches"). A victimof the dreaded "hybridism" disease, this attempt to combinethe 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 manyusers are logged on, the load average jumps quickly over 20due to silly implementation of the user databases.For a quite similar disease, compare HP-SUX. Also, compareMacintrash Nominal Semidestructor, Open DeathTrap,ScumOS, sun-stools.