Document PERCENT_NORM_CPU and mention Irix / Solaris modes (top lingo)

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.TP
.B PERCENT_CPU (CPU%)
The percentage of the CPU time that the process is currently using.
This is the default way to represent CPU usage in Linux. Each process can
consume up to 100% which means the full capacity of the core it is running
on. This is sometimes called "Irix mode" e.g. in
.BR top (1).
.TP
.B PERCENT_NORM_CPU (NCPU%)
The percentage of the CPU time that the process is currently using normalized
by CPU count. This is sometimes called "Solaris mode" e.g. in
.BR top (1).
.TP
.B PERCENT_MEM (MEM%)
The percentage of memory the process is currently using (based on the process's