AIDX: /ayd'k*z/ n. 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, ScumOS, sun-stools.
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