<note><para>This Solaris release
supports systems that use the <trademark class="registered">SPARC</trademark> and
x86  families of processor architectures:  <trademark class="registered">UltraSPARC</trademark>, SPARC64, AMD64, Pentium, and Xeon
EM64T. The supported systems appear in the <citetitle>Solaris Hardware Compatibility
List</citetitle> at  <ulink url="http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl" type="url">http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl</ulink>. This document cites any implementation differences between the platform
types.</para><para>In this document the term &ldquo;x86&rdquo; refers to 64-bit
and 32-bit systems manufactured using processors compatible with the AMD64
 or Intel Xeon/Pentium product families. For supported systems, see the <citetitle>Solaris Hardware Compatibility List</citetitle>.</para>
</note>