diff --git a/sys/pc98/conf/NOTES b/sys/pc98/conf/NOTES
index 91c03cb799fa..6bf5ac343bd7 100644
--- a/sys/pc98/conf/NOTES
+++ b/sys/pc98/conf/NOTES
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ device		npx
 #	INT 16 exception handling works.
 # Then copying and zeroing using the npx registers is normally 30-100% faster.
 # The flags can be used to control cases where it doesn't work or is slower.
-# Setting them at boot time using userconfig works right (the optimizations
+# Setting them at boot time using hints works right (the optimizations
 # are not used until later in the bootstrap when npx0 is attached).
 # Flag 0x08 automatically disables the i586 optimized routines.
 #