diff --git a/README.cxxTemplates b/README.cxxTemplates
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--- a/README.cxxTemplates
+++ b/README.cxxTemplates
@@ -1,22 +1,19 @@
 
-The C++ templates supplied with EPICS base are in 
-"$(EPICS)/base/src/cxxTemplates".
-
 In Stroustrups's "The C++ Programming Language" Appendix A: r.14.9
 (ANSI/ISO resolutions) a mechanism is described for the explicit 
 instantiation of template member functions (that are not inline). 
 At this time some compilers do not support this mechanism (and use
 a template database snd/or smart linker instead). Other compilers 
 (such as g++) provide only limited support for other forms of
-instantiation (g++ does not yet provide a template database or 
-a smart linker for templates).
+instantiation (g++ currently supplies a smart linker for templates
+only on a limited set of OS).
 
-Since there is no defacto standard mechanism for instatiating
+Since there is no standard mechanism for instatiating
 templates at this time we are defining the preprocessor flag 
 EXPL_TEMPL in the build system when the compiler supports
 explicit instantiation and the compiler does not support
 automatic instantiation via a smart linker and/or template
-database (currently this is only g++).
+database.
 
 EPICS codes that use templates may need to include a code block
 as follow that instantiates the template only once into each