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Re:The Texas Instruments 99/4: World’s First 16-Bit Computer by lispm on Monday June 26, 2017 @08:51PM (#14641710)
It was't the world's first 16bit computer. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16-bit

Maybe it was the first 16bit HOME computer... as mentioned in the text.

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Re:The Texas Instruments 99/4: World’s First 16-Bit Computer by IrishJourno on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @11:26AM (#14646243)
Hi -- I'm one of the editor's at IEEE Spectrum. You're absolutely correct: as the article does make clear, it was the first 16-bit HOME computer. We should have been more specific in the headline, our bad.
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