Rant: Why call Solaris 11 "x86" when it's actually x64?

There was a time I could install Solaris on a Intel Celeron 466 Mhz 256 MB machine, and that was not so long ago, just a few years. That became a nightmare with a new release because the installation needed more memory. No problem, because now I have an Intel 3 GHz 2 GB machine: that should be enough for SunOS 11. So I downloaded the X86 image and burnt it onto a CD-ROM. Not working. Buring it onto a DVD should be a more safe guess, but then the same error came: "long mode not supported". Searching with Google tought me that this is because Oracle only supports 64-bit processors now.
Angry as I am, I am literally throwing the useless burned CD-ROM and DVD disks in the trash for miles away now. Why does Oracle name the downloads "X86" when it is in fact "X64"? While reviewing the download pages, I really can't find any clue for the X64-only thing. So it's not my fault!
So Oracle, thanks for not supporting 32-bit systems anymore and keeping it a well kept secret.

I got bit by that too when VirtualBox would only run a 32 bit guest on my 64 bit Opterons and the new S11 was 64 bit only.
To answer the question, the original Solaris was SPARC based. Actually, that may not be entirely true, since Solaris descended from SunOS which (I think) predated SPARC, so there might have been a time during the transition when Solaris supported more than SPARC.
Nonetheless, there is a Solaris SPARC and its little brother which runs on the x86 architecture: Solaris x86.
Just because it is 64 bit only does not change the fact that it is x86-based, regardless of the fact that Linux-ish operating systems differentiate the two by referring to 64-bit x86 architecture as x64.

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