Current Page: NeXtMidas Training Background What is Midas?
- - | MIDAS MIDAS = Multi-user Interactive Development and Analysis System MIDAS Frameworks
    The Beginning | Apex, HP/MIDAS (circa 1978-80)
    Ancient History | VAX/MIDAS (circa 1983)
    X-Midas (XM) | FORTRAN (1991)
    Midas 2K (M2K) | C++
    NeXtMidas (NXM) | Java
Why Use MIDAS? Provides a common OPEN-SOURCE way of solving OUR problems! Proven success for rapid prototyping MIDAS frameworks (XM, NXM) are used in many facilities throughout the world. Highly standardized and works with a large set of deployed hardware. ICE, XPxx, BRIK Cards, etc. Standardized structure facilitates code sharing.