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Document the history of fdisk based on the original post to comp.unix.bsd by Julian Elischer [1] and the Mach 2.5 Installation notes [2].

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I was unable to pin point the exact version of Mach the fdisk utility appeared as I could not find documentation older than version 2.5 & no source code or repo history.
fdisk utility appears as a separate utility[3] in v2.5. Due to this, I have avoided stating the exact version fdisk first appeared in Mach.
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[1] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.unix.bsd/Hhi45vAHxDg/discussion
[2] ftp://ftp.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/doc/misc/mach-i386-doc/i386_install.ps
[3] ftp://ftp.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/doc/misc/mach-i386-doc/i386_manpages.ps

PR:		212470
Approved by:	bcr (mentor)
MFC after:	5 days
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D8104
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.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
.Dd April 30, 2007
.Dd October 5, 2016
.Dt FDISK 8
.Os
.Sh NAME
@ -448,6 +448,21 @@ Example: to make slice 1 the active slice:
.Xr bsdlabel 8 ,
.Xr gpart 8 ,
.Xr newfs 8
.Sh HISTORY
A version of
.Nm
first appeared in the Mach Operating System.
It was subsequently ported to
.Bx 386 .
.Sh AUTHORS
.An -nosplit
.Nm
for Mach Operating System was written by
.An Robert Baron Aq Mt rvb@cs.cmu.edu .
It was ported to
.Bx 386
by
.An Julian Elischer Aq Mt julian@tfs.com .
.Sh BUGS
The default boot code will not necessarily handle all slice types
correctly, in particular those introduced since