  At the new neutron source FRM--II in Garching, Germany, the TACO control
system, originally developed at the ESRF in Grenoble, France is used for
instrument control purposes. TACO provides an object oriented, distributed
control system including a clearly defined API. In order to equip TACO with a
general user front end, a network based instrument control system named NICOS
has been developed at the FRM-II. NICOS is divided into three parts: the NICOS
Client, the NICOS Server and the NICOSMethods.
