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From: dolf@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Dolf Grunbauer)
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Subject: Re: What does VME stand for?
Keywords: VME
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Date: 8 Apr 91 07:28:45 GMT
References: <1991Apr5.194027.22127@garfield.cs.mun.ca> <1991Apr7.235606.196933@rrz.uni-koeln.de>
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In article <1991Apr7.235606.196933@rrz.uni-koeln.de> se@snert.ikp (Stefan Esser) writes:
>The V of VME seems to be short for VERSA, the E might be 'Europe' 
>as in the earlier VERSAbus-E (VERSAbus on european board sizes). 
>I don't know what the M is standing for... May be its short for Motorola ?
>
>Then VME would mean 'VERSAbus Motorola Europe'.
>
I have heard two things: 
1. If VMEbus would have been an abbreviation, then the M is for Modules, as
   the VMEbus is an open standard allowing everyone to make its own Modules
   to be used by everybody else.
2. VMEbus is no abbreviation, it is a name in itself (just like Apple,
   Commodore, Atari etc, so not like IBM, DEC, CDC etc).