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@@ -7,14 +7,11 @@ Report VIII at <http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD0735148> which
 covered the period of July 1970 to July 1971 although some have 
 claimed as early as 1969 but provide no sources.
 
 covered the period of July 1970 to July 1971 although some have 
 claimed as early as 1969 but provide no sources.
 

-The original MIT-DMS (along with other historically important systems 
-like AI, MC, anmd ML) were KA- and KL-10 based PDP-10 systems running 
-the Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS.) When they were retired in 
-1982, four KS-10 systems ("DECSYSTEM-2020") were put in their place in 
-order to keep ITS running. These were retired from service around 1995.
-
-This mudman.git repository is named after the MUDMAN directory on 
-MIT-DMS, which contained documentation about Muddle.
+MIT-DM (along with other historically important systems like AI, MC, 
+and ML) were a group of PDP-10 systems running the Incompatible 
+Timesharing System (ITS.) This mudman.git repository is named after 
+the MUDMAN directory on DM, which contained documentation about 
+Muddle.

 
 Many people have worked on Muddle in one aspect or other over the 
 years. These include (in alphabetical order by first name): Brian 
 
 Many people have worked on Muddle in one aspect or other over the 
 years. These include (in alphabetical order by first name): Brian 


@@ -57,13 +54,12 @@ language, especially since there are no longer any DARPA funding
 concerns.
 
 The documents in this repository, including this one, are made 
 concerns.
 
 The documents in this repository, including this one, are made 

-following the CommonMark specification: <http://commonmark.org/>.
+following Pandoc's extended version of Markdown: 
+<http://pandoc.org/>.

 
 

-Converting them to other formats requires that cmark, which is the 
-reference implementation of Commonmark in C from 
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+Converting them to other formats requires that Pandoc or some other
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+your system.

 
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