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From: nick@spider.co.uk (Nick Felisiak)
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Subject: Re: What does VME stand for?
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.092737.28493@spider.co.uk>
Date: 17 Apr 91 09:27:37 GMT
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In article <45237@super.ORG> rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich) writes:
>In article <1991Apr5.194027.22127@garfield.cs.mun.ca> sandy@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Sandy Walsh) writes:
>>So far the winner seems to be Virtual Memory Environment
>>with Virtual Memory Expansion a close second ( and my favorite ).
>      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>A timeless classic, probably derived from DEC's VAX name, 
>but pretty completely wrong (what does a bus spec have to do with 
>VM, much less VM expansion?)
>

There was/is another VME, and this may be the one to which Ronald is referring.
ICL, the British manufacturer, produced two operating systems, VME/B and
VME/K.  VME, in this case, stood for 'Virtual Machine Environment'.

VME/B lives on in the 2900 and 3900 range.

Just to complete the naming confusion, VME/B was written in a programming
language called S3, derived from Algol-68.  Later, they developed a processor
range called S2, S3, S4 .. (don't ask what happened to S1!).





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