MAR(a)BOU is a system for data acquisition and evaluation developed at the
Tandem Accelerator Laboratory of the Universities of Munich. It consists of
a front-end system for data readout, event building, and data transport ba
sed on the Multi Branch System MBS, and aback-end system responsible for se
tup, run control, histogramming, data analysis, and data storage written wi
thin the ROOT framework. The ROOT part includes a GUI to control the MBS fr
ont-end, a histogram presenter to visualize the data, and class libraries t
o describe the experiment.