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commit 83445196acd4f090e2a82777da4dfa05bbaa092c
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Tue Sep 8 09:09:10 2026 -0500
groff_man*(7): Fix date applied to SVr4.
---
tmac/groff_man.7.man.in | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
index af0e8bef7..6f0555404 100644
--- a/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
+++ b/tmac/groff_man.7.man.in
@@ -3871,7 +3871,16 @@ and
SunOS\~4.0 (1988) added
.BR SB .
.
-Unix System\~V Release\~4 (1988) incorporated the
+Unix System\~V Release\~4 (1989) incorporated the
+.\" It's unclear, and may be ill-defined, when SVr4 was "released", as
+.\" it seems to have been progressively rolled out to various licensees
+.\" over time--even if social media tech bros claim to have innovated
+.\" that practice. Contemporary materials indicate that SVr4 was
+.\" _announced_ in October 1988 jointly by AT&T and Sun, but its source
+.\" code tape, a "reference implementation", didn't ship to the public
+.\" for over a year (in a preview of the game Microsoft would later play
+.\" with "Chicago", later known as Windows 95). GBR uses the 1989 date
+.\" for consistency with his work on the ncurses man pages.
.B lq
and
.B rq
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