From 8f9f46b6458dea1bcb7ba265c47247d2858f6351 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:49:28 +0000
Subject: Add a short HISTORY section to mdoc.7.  Facts provided by schwarze@'s
 detective-work in the UNIX archives.

---
 mdoc.7 | 13 ++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mdoc.7 b/mdoc.7
index cd7280bc..c343690c 100644
--- a/mdoc.7
+++ b/mdoc.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$Id: mdoc.7,v 1.150 2010/08/22 14:54:29 kristaps Exp $
+.\"	$Id: mdoc.7,v 1.151 2010/08/22 15:49:28 kristaps Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
 .\" Copyright (c) 2010 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
@@ -2861,6 +2861,17 @@ This is not supported by mandoc.
 .Sh SEE ALSO
 .Xr mandoc 1 ,
 .Xr mandoc_char 7
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+language first appeared as a troff macro package in
+.Bx 4.4 .
+It was later significantly updated by Werner Lemberg and Ruslan Ermilov
+in groff-1.20.1.
+The standalone implementation that is part of the
+.Xr mandoc 1
+utility written by Kristaps Dzonsons appeared in
+.Ox 4.6 .
 .Sh AUTHORS
 The
 .Nm
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