Objection 1 A 16 bit app on a register oriented machine must obviously not use registers wider than the maximum register width However that doesn t prevent it from having data items wider than the maximum register width Late 1970 s versions of C on the 16 bit PDP 11 had a 32 bit integral data type The n bit template just says In computer architecture 1 bit integers memory addresses or other data units are those that are at most 1 bits 2 wide That specifically refers to computer architecture so it allows for wider integer arithmetic which would have to be done with multiple arithmetic instructions 64 bit computing which doesn t use that template says In computer architecture 64 bit computing is the use of processors that have datapath widths integer size and memory addresses widths of 64 bits eight octets This is similar it speaks of processors but it s still talking at the instruction set level I m not convinced that In computer architecture 16 bit computing is the use of primarily 16 bit data including integers and memory addresses That is data elements are at most 16 bits 2 octets wide from Lyon s version is an improvement It doesn t change it from something that doesn t allow for example a 32 bit to something that does It might better handle the PDP 11 in which one of the floating point instruction sets the one introduced with the 11 45 s floating point processor provided limited support for 32 bit integers converting to and from floating point but no arithmetic or the 80286 with its 24 bit segmented addresses but it does so by adding the somewhat weasel wordish primarily Objection 3 Popular varies with time and with market segment 16 bit minicomputers were quite popular in the computing market throughout the 1970 s and 16 bit personal computers were quite popular during at least the first half of the 1980 s However you won t find many 16 bit minicomputers or personal computers these days You may find lots of 16 bit microprocessors in embedded applications now I d say that any talk of popularity belongs in text giving more detail than just CPU and ALU architectures based on registers address buses and data buses of 16 bit width have been popular for decades giving some historical background That can BTW be done whilst still using the n bit template put it in another section another paragraph or another sentence in that paragraph after the template So for now I d say leave things as they are pending further discussion Lyon s rationale for the rename of 64 bit to 64 bit computing and some discussion of the issues with the n bit template can be found at Talk 64 bit computing Title More of his arguments against the template can be found at Template talk N bit Longlasting problems from ancient template I would suggest that further discussion of the merits of the template be done there and that replacing the template in this or other n bit articles not be done until something approximating a consensus is reached there I m not sure where the merits of renaming n bit to n bit computing should be discussed but I d like to see that discussed a bit more and again something approximating a consensus reached before renaming any other articles