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Amend history to mention predecessor originated from 386BSD[1] & current implementation from NetBSD[2].

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Reword history since the utility was renamed once more in FreeBSD 5.0.
Separate out author & historical information regarding character code conversion.
Add AUTHORS section.

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/mount_pcfs.c/comp.unix.bsd/9qhH0v1tZm0/inlPnXZj_2sJ
[2] http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sbin/mount_msdos/mount_msdos.c?rev=1.6&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

PR:		212536
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
MFC after:	4 days
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8105
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.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd October 1, 2013
.Dd October 3, 2016
.Dt MOUNT_MSDOSFS 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -193,21 +193,32 @@ To mount a Japanese MS-DOS file system located in
List of Localized MS Operating Systems:
.Pa http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/oslocversion.mspx .
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
utility first appeared in
.Fx 2.0 .
Its predecessor, the
The predecessor to
.Nm mount_msdos
utility named
.Nm mount_pcfs
utility appeared in
.Fx 1.0 ,
and was abandoned in favor
of the more aptly-named
.Nm .
.Pp
appeared in
.Bx 386 .
It was rewritten in
.Nx 1.0
and first appeared in
.Fx 2.0 .
.Nm mount_msdos
was renamed to the more aptly-named
.Nm
in
.Fx 5.0.
The character code conversion routine was added in 2003.
.Sh AUTHORS
Initial implementation as
.Nm mount_pcfs
was written by
.An -nosplit
.An Paul Popelka Aq Mt paulp@uts.amdahl.com .
It was rewritten by
.An Christopher G. Demetriou Aq Mt cgd@NetBSD.org .
The character code conversion routine was added by
.An Ryuichiro Imura Aq Mt imura@ryu16.org
in 2003.
.An Ryuichiro Imura Aq Mt imura@ryu16.org .
.Sh CAVEATS
The use of the
.Fl 9