- NeXtMidas History
- NeXtMidas was started in 1998 by Jeff Schoen, founder of Innovative Computer
Engineering (ICE).
- NeXtMidas attempted to take full advantage of the technology developed during
the internet boom of the 1990s
- NeXtMidas Goals
- NeXtMidas is intended to be a networked version of the Midas shell written in Java
that provides high-performance DSP capabilities in a platform-neutral environment.
- NeXtMidas is intended to feel "natural" to the X-Midas programmer with similar
Macro language and option tree structure (the libraries, of course, will differ).
- NeXtMidas Facts
- NeXtMidas is written in Java (with a few auxiliary methods in C).
- The use of C is limited to terminal interaction and special high-performance
data conversion methods. All of these can be disabled allowing NeXtMidas to
run using pure Java.
- The NeXtMidas Macro language is similar to the one used in X-Midas but provides
access to any Java function or command.
- NeXtMidas shares many X-Midas concepts including: option trees, primitives, intrinsics and macros.