diff --git a/top/top.c b/top/top.c
index 1d9ee5e4..095ebe46 100644
--- a/top/top.c
+++ b/top/top.c
@@ -1775,7 +1775,7 @@ always:
 /*######  Library Interface  #############################################*/
 
         /*
-         * This guy's modeled on libproc's 'five_cpu_numbers' function except
+         * This guy's modeled on libproc's 'eight_cpu_numbers' function except
          * we preserve all cpu data in our CPU_t array which is organized
          * as follows:
          *    cpus[0] thru cpus[n] == tics for each separate cpu
diff --git a/top/top.h b/top/top.h
index 7f76b776..c8d2fc83 100644
--- a/top/top.h
+++ b/top/top.h
@@ -96,8 +96,8 @@
            -- mostly just to pinpoint source code usage/dependancies */
 #define SCREENMAX   512
    /* the above might seem pretty stingy, until you consider that with every
-      one of top's fields displayed it's less than 200 bytes of column header
-      -- so SCREENMAX provides for all fields plus a 300+ byte command line */
+      field displayed the column header would be approximately 250 bytes
+      -- so SCREENMAX provides for all fields plus a 250+ byte command line */
 #define CAPBUFSIZ    32
 #define CLRBUFSIZ    64
 #define PFLAGSSIZ    64
diff --git a/top/top_nls.h b/top/top_nls.h
index 3f554e63..a6d7c1f9 100644
--- a/top/top_nls.h
+++ b/top/top_nls.h
@@ -24,7 +24,17 @@
          *    Desc : field descriptions not to exceed 20 screen positions
          *    Norm : regular text possibly also containing c-format specifiers
          *    Uniq : show_special specially formatted strings
+         *
          * The latter table presents the greatest translation challenge !
+         *
+         * We go to the trouble of creating the nls string tables to achieve
+         * these objectives:
+         *    +  the overhead of repeated runtime calls to gettext()
+         *       will be avoided
+         *    +  the order of the strings in the template (.pot) file
+         *       can be completely controlled
+         *    +  none of the important translator only comments will
+         *       clutter and obscure the main program
          */
 extern const char *Desc_nlstab[];
 extern const char *Norm_nlstab[];