<s>
MIDAS	O
is	O
a	O
data	B-Algorithm
acquisition	I-Algorithm
package	O
developed	O
at	O
the	O
Paul	O
Scherrer	O
Institute	O
,	O
Switzerland	O
,	O
and	O
TRIUMF	O
,	O
Canada	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
designed	O
for	O
particle	B-Algorithm
detectors	I-Algorithm
using	O
CAMAC	B-Architecture
and	O
VMEbus	B-Architecture
hardware	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
MIDAS	O
(	O
Maximum	O
Integration	O
Data	B-Algorithm
Acquisition	I-Algorithm
System	I-Algorithm
)	O
has	O
been	O
developed	O
as	O
a	O
general	O
purpose	O
data	B-Algorithm
acquisition	I-Algorithm
system	I-Algorithm
for	O
small	O
and	O
medium	O
scale	O
experiments	O
originally	O
by	O
Stefan	O
Ritt	O
in	O
1993	O
,	O
followed	O
by	O
Pierre-André	O
Amaudruz	O
in	O
1996	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
written	O
in	O
C	B-Language
and	O
published	O
under	O
the	O
GPL	B-License
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
experiment	O
complexity	O
ranges	O
from	O
test	O
systems	O
,	O
where	O
a	O
single	O
PC	O
is	O
connected	O
to	O
CAMAC	B-Architecture
via	O
a	O
PC-CAMAC	O
interface	O
,	O
to	O
experiments	O
with	O
several	O
front-end	O
computers	O
and	O
analysis	O
nodes	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
system	O
currently	O
runs	O
under	O
Linux	B-Application
,	O
Microsoft	B-Application
Windows	I-Application
,	O
various	O
versions	O
of	O
UNIX	O
,	O
VMS	B-Operating_System
,	O
VxWorks	B-Operating_System
and	O
MS-DOS	B-Application
and	O
can	O
be	O
ported	O
easily	O
to	O
virtually	O
any	O
operating	O
system	O
which	O
supports	O
TCP/IP	B-Protocol
sockets	I-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
speed-optimized	O
RPC	O
layer	O
is	O
used	O
for	O
data	O
exchange	O
,	O
with	O
which	O
sustained	O
data	O
rates	O
of	O
980kB/s	O
(	O
10BASE-T	B-Protocol
)	O
,	O
8.7MB/s	O
(	O
100BASE-TX	B-Protocol
)	O
and	O
up	O
to	O
98MB/s	O
(	O
1000BASE-T	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Drivers	O
exist	O
for	O
CAMAC	B-Architecture
,	O
VME	O
,	O
Fastbus	O
,	O
High	O
Voltage	O
Crates	O
,	O
GBIB	O
and	O
several	O
PC	O
plug-in	O
DAQ	O
boards	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
online	O
data	O
can	O
be	O
presented	O
by	O
PAW	B-Application
as	O
histograms	O
and	O
N-tuples	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
by	O
ROOT	O
.	O
</s>
