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From: alfter@nevada.edu (SCOTT ALFTER)
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Subject: Re: Once again, questions concerning the ensoniq chip...
Message-ID: <1991May3.175024.29761@nevada.edu>
Date: 3 May 91 17:50:24 GMT
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In article <1991May3.042214.20311@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> anarch@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (The Anarch) writes:
>     Hee hee...there are probably more cards available for VME than for
>NuBus and EISA combined. [...] VME (Versa something
>Eurocard) has been around as a common 680x0 bus for over ten years.
>It's an adaptation of Motorola's VersaBus, designed to accept Eurocard
>format boards.

Strange...if this is such a standard, why do you never see it
advertised anywhere in the computer magazines?  In all my searching
through Computer Shopper, and in occasional glimpses in PC Magazine
and Macworld (the latter would be more relevant to a 680x0 bus), I've
never seen anything about VME.  (But you did say that it's something
European; that's probably why the stuff is non-mainstream here in the
U.S.)

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