- 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.