Yes - it requires the PowerPc chip from IBM. See related link for more hardware information.
Depends on what you mean by "programmable". AIX is the commercial offshoot version of UNIX provided by IBM and is proprietary.
IBM AIX was created in 1986.
aix is a unix system from IBM
The only OS that IBM produces is called AIX. AIX is a flavor of Unix. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIX_operating_system
The base part of the two systems are the same. Solaris is a Unix system from Oracle (Sun Microsystems) AIX is a Unix system from IBM. They also run on different hardware chipsets.
IBM AIX currently only supports Power chip processors, which are not the Intel X86 format.
It is not possible to install AIX on a laptop in any way.
The IBM AIX was initially released in May 4, 2001. AIX stands for support lifecycle information for AIX Technology Levels, or as commonly known as TL. More and more product IDs have been generated for updates.
The "creator" of AIX is the IBM corporation. Since it is a team effort there is no one individual responsible for the OS.
Advanced Interactive eXecutive when referring to IBM.
IBM does make hardware, though it is mostly aimed at businesses.
AIX is the commercial Unix product produced by IBM. Since it is a server system, you could use it for anything that would require server services, such as Internet services, web services, e-mail services, file services, etc. AIX in a server mode is no different than other servers in terms of offering resources to be used by other clients.