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 .\" Copyright (c) 2006, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-.\" includes some material by other authors that was formerly
-.\" in intro.2.
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@@ -23,7 +21,7 @@
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-.TH STANDARDS 7 2013-09-06 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH STANDARDS 7 2014-01-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 standards \- C and UNIX Standards
 .SH DESCRIPTION
@@ -32,7 +30,10 @@ various standards to which the documented interface conforms.
 The following list briefly describes these standards.
 .TP
 .B V7
-Version 7, the ancestral UNIX from Bell Labs.
+Version 7 (also known as Seventh Edition) UNIX,
+released by AT&T/Bell Labs in 1979.
+After this point, UNIX systems diverged into two main dialects:
+BSD and System V.
 .TP
 .B 4.2BSD
 This is an implementation standard defined by the 4.2 release