End of Software Support Statements for the Solaris 7 Operating Environment

Format of OS Man Page Source Files

Beginning with the release of the Solaris 7 operating environment, the SunOS Reference Manual pages (man pages) in the /usr/share/man directory may no longer be available in nroff/troff format. Support for man pages may be provided with SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) formatted man pages. Man pages in nroff/troff format continue to be supported by the man command.

Solaris PEX

The Solaris PEX runtime libraries and development environment are no longer supported in the Solaris 7 operating environment.

x86 only: Support of Systems With Intel 80386 Chips

Support for platforms based on the Intel 80386 chip is no longer provided in the Solaris 7 operating environment.

x86 only: Support of Systems and Devices

The following systems or devices are no longer supported in the Solaris 7 operating environment:

Systems

All IBM PS/2 Personal Computers, and PC Server systems with the IBM Micro Channel Bus Architecture including, but not limited to, the following:

• IBM PS/2 Model 76 (9576-xxx)

• IBM PS/2 Model 95 XP 486 (9595-OLx)

• IBM PS/2 Model 95 XP 486 (9595-OMx)

• IBM PS/2 Server 95 Array (9595-3Qx)

• IBM PC Server 320 (8640-Mxx)

• IBM PC Server 500 (8641-OYx)

• IBM PC Server 520 (8641-Mxx)

• IBM PC Server 720 (8642-xxx)

• AST Manhattan Series

• Compaq SystemPro (i486 through Pentium 100)

• Tricord PowerFrame ES3000, ES4000, ES5000

• Wyse Series 7000i, 7000-760MP, 7000-765MP

Devices

• 3Com EtherLink II (3C503) (el driver)

• 3Com EtherLink 16 (3C507) (elink driver)

• Dell SCSI Array (dsa Driver)

• Tricord Intelligent SCSI Subsystem Controller (iss driver)

• Racal Interlan ES3210 Ethernet Adapter (riles driver)

• Texas Intstruments notebook mouse (tiqmouse driver)

• Compaq QVision 1024/E

• Compaq QVision 1024/I

• Diamond Stealth 24

• Diamond Stealth VRAM

• Diamond Viper PCI

• Diamond Viper VLB

• Diamond Viper Pro PCI

• Diamond Viper Pro VLB

• Diamond Viper SE

• IBM XGA

• IBM XGA-2

• Intergraph TD-2, TD-3 (Weitek Power P9000)

• Intergraph G91

• Matrox MGA Impression

• Matrox MGA Ultima

• Matrox MGA Ultima Plus

• Matrox MGA Ultima Plus 200

• Miro miroMagic

• Orchid Fahrenheit 1280

• Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 Plus

• Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 Plus

• Orchid Fahrenheit VA

• Orchid Prodesigner IIs

Support has been removed for Micro Channel systems and devices including (but not limited to):

• IBM PS/2 Micro Channel SCSI Adapter (mcis driver)

• IBM SCSI-2 Fast/Wide Adapter /A (corvette driver)

• IBM 16/4 Token Ring Adapter (Micro Channel)

• IBM Auto 16/4 Token Ring Adatper (tr--MCA version only)

• Adaptec AHA-1640/1640 Microchannel SCSI Controller

• 3Com EtherLink III/MC (3C529)

Notebooks

• Ambra SN425C

• AST Ascentia 800N 486SX/33

• AST Ascentia 900N 4/50

• AST Ascentia 900N 4/75

• AST Ascentia 910N (486DX2-50)

• AST Power Exec 4/33 ColorPlus

• Compaq LTE 4/25C

• Compaq LTE 4/33

• Compaq LTE Elite

• Everex StepNote

• Gateway 2000 ColorBook

• Tadpole 1000

• Texas Instruments 4000E

• Texas Instruments 5000

• Toshiba 2000CT

• Toshiba T1950CT

• Toshiba T3400

• Toshiba T3600

• Toshiba DynaBook SS475 051CT

• Toshiba DynaBook SS475-JP

• Twinhead Slimnote II

• Zenith Data Systems Z-Note

• Zenith Data Systems Z-Noteflex