[m-rev.] for review 1/3: Create README.md

[Paul Bone]

From: Sebastian Godelet <sebastian.godelet+github at gmail.com>

Branches: master

For review by anyone.

(Commit log by Paul Bone)

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Create README.md

Github will automatically format and display a file named README.md in the
root directory of any project.  This can be helpful to, at a minimum, direct
anyone browsing github to the project's website.  Sebastian has contributed
the following README.md.

README.md:
    New markdown-formatted README file for github.
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+Mercury
+=======
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+This is the Melbourne implementation of the [Mercury](http://www.mercurylang.org/) logic programming system.
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+## Instructions
+
+ * Low-level backend compilers
+  * [.Net IL](README.DotNet)
+  * [Clang](README.clang)
+  * [lcc](README.lcc)
+ * High-level backend targets
+  * [C#](README.CSharp)
+  * [Erlang](README.Erlang)
+  * [Java](README.Java)
+ * Unix
+  * [FreeBSD](README.FreeBSD)
+  * [AIX](README.AIX)
+  * [HP-UX](README.HPUX)
+  * [Solaris](README.Solaris)
+  * [IRIX-5](README.IRIX-5)
+  * [MacOS](README.MacOS)
+ * [Linux](README.Linux)
+  * [Alpha](README.Linux-Alpha)
+  * [PPC](README.Linux-PPC)
+  * [m68k](README.Linux-m68k)
+ * Cross compilation
+  * [MinGW](README.MinGW-cross)
+ * [Windows](README.MS-Windows)
+  * Using the [Visual C compiler](README.MS-VisualC)
+  * Using the [MinGW gcc compiler](README.MinGW)
+  * Using the [Cygwin](README.Cygwin) environment
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