From 442bd855781549b2ca777a44cba3baa699b45b6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:34:30 +1300 Subject: [PATCH] standards.7: Enhance description of V7 (Nothing of substance now remains from the old intro(2) text.) Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/standards.7 | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/man7/standards.7 b/man7/standards.7 index c893f4b96..e541f1f38 100644 --- a/man7/standards.7 +++ b/man7/standards.7 @@ -1,6 +1,4 @@ .\" Copyright (c) 2006, Michael Kerrisk -.\" includes some material by other authors that was formerly -.\" in intro.2. .\" .\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPLv2+_DOC_FULL) .\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or @@ -23,7 +21,7 @@ .\" . .\" %%%LICENSE_END .\" -.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