diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 35dc2ddecb..2dd89cfde3 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ Moved macmanuf to /contrib (Larry Rosenman)
 Syslog improvements (Larry Rosenman)
 New template0 database that contains no user additions (Tom)
 New /contrib/cube and /contrib/seg GIST sample code (Gene Selkov)
-Allow *BSD's libedit instead of readline (Peter)
+Allow NetBSD's libedit instead of readline (Peter)
 Improved assembly language source code format (Bruce)
 
 
diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
index 509792c46b..195cbc0c61 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--
-$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.78 2001/02/09 17:53:44 momjian Exp $
+$Header: /cvsroot/pgsql/doc/src/sgml/release.sgml,v 1.79 2001/02/09 17:55:48 momjian Exp $
 -->
 
  <appendix id="release">
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ Moved macmanuf to /contrib (Larry Rosenman)
 Syslog improvements (Larry Rosenman)
 New template0 database that contains no user additions (Tom)
 New /contrib/cube and /contrib/seg GIST sample code (Gene Selkov)
-Allow *BSD's libedit instead of readline (Peter)
+Allow NetBSD's libedit instead of readline (Peter)
 Improved assembly language source code format (Bruce)
      </programlisting>
     </para>