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From: anarch@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (The Anarch)
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Subject: Re: Once again, questions concerning the ensoniq chip...
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Date: 4 May 91 18:00:08 GMT
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In article <1991May3.175024.29761@nevada.edu> alfter@nevada.edu (SCOTT ALFTER) writes:
>Strange...if this [VME] 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.)

It's actually quite popular in the US--the "European" is just from
the name of the card format -- but not in the PC world.  Virtually
all of the VME stuff I have seen has been in industrial situations.  For
that reason, VME *is* kind of strange to use as a bus for a PC like the
Atari.  The stuff that's out there is not really oriented towards the
typical Atari user--it's all for people who want to control robotic
assembly lines and things like that.

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