<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 10
Hardware Compatibility List</citetitle> at <ulink url="http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl" type="url"></ulink>. This document cites any implementation differences between
the platform types.</para><itemizedlist><para>In this document these x86 related terms mean the following:</para><listitem><para>&ldquo;x86&rdquo; refers to the larger family of 64-bit and
 32-bit x86 compatible products.</para>
</listitem><listitem><para>&ldquo;x64&rdquo; points out specific 64-bit information about
AMD64 or EM64T systems.</para>
</listitem><listitem><para>&ldquo;32-bit x86&rdquo; points out specific 32-bit information
about x86 based systems.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist><para>For supported systems, see the <citetitle>Solaris 10 Hardware Compatibility
List</citetitle>.</para>
</note>