Editing IBM AIX (section)

===Apple Network Servers===
The [[Apple Network Server]] (ANS) systems were PowerPC-based systems designed by [[Apple Inc.|Apple Computer]] to have numerous high-end features that standard Apple hardware did not have, including swappable hard drives, redundant power supplies, and external monitoring capability. These systems were more or less based on the [[Power Macintosh]] hardware available at the time but were designed to use AIX (versions 4.1.4 or 4.1.5) as their native operating system in a specialized version specific to the ANS called AIX for Apple Network Servers.

AIX was only compatible with the Network Servers and was not ported to standard Power Macintosh hardware. It should not be confused with [[A/UX]], Apple's earlier version of Unix for [[Motorola 68000 series|68k]]-based [[Mac (computer)|Macintoshes]].