Move the description of the traditional sleep() form out into the history

section, we no longer have it.

Fix mdoc style violations caused by a previous committer.
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@ -108,11 +108,6 @@ possible, and
is returned if the system call should be interrupted by the signal
.Pq return Dv EINTR .
.Pp
.Nm Sleep
is the traditional form. It doesn't let you specify a timeout nor a
.Ar wmesg ,
hence its use is deprecated.
.Pp
.Nm Asleep
implements the new asynchronous sleep function. It takes the same arguments
as
@ -226,9 +221,17 @@ first appeared in
.Fx 3.0
and is designed to shift the burden of blocking
away from extremely low level routines and push it up to their callers.
.Pp
.Nm Sleep
used to be the traditional form. It doesn't let you specify a timeout nor a
.Ar wmesg ,
hence it has been discontinued.
.Sh AUTHORS
This man page has been written by
.ie t J\(:org Wunsch.
.el Joerg Wunsch.
asleep/await designed and written by
.Nm Asleep
and
.Nm await
designed and written by
.An Matthew Dillon.