[m-rev.] diff: HISTORY: mention .NET back-end

[Fergus Henderson]

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HISTORY:
	Add a section on the .NET CLR back-end history.

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 There are however some new packages in the mercury-extras distribution:
 * lex: a lexical analyzer library for Mercury.
 * curs: a simplified binding to the ncurses/panel libraries for terminal I/O.
+
+
+Mercury 0.11, December 24, 2002
+-------------------------------
+See the NEWS file.
+
+
+.NET CLR back-end history
+-------------------------
+As mentioned above, we started working on the MLDS back-end in July 1999.
+The MLDS back-end was also used as the basis of the .NET CLR and Java
+back-ends.  An initial version of the compiler, which was capable of
+compiling programs such as "hello world" and "eliza", was committed to
+the public Mercury CVS repository on 14th Oct, 2000.  The compiler first
+completed a successful bootstrap using the .NET CLR back-end grade on
+February 21st, 2003.
+

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