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From: tomk@intsc.UUCP (Tom Kohrs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: Re: What's Nu with VME for Mac?
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Date: Thu, 13-Nov-86 15:20:37 EST
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In article <1381@lsuc.UUCP James Omura writes:
>                                                  It said that VME
> was a Motorola bus.  VME has been heavily promoted by Motorola but
> it is *not* a Motorola bus.  It is intended to be a generallized
> design.

What ever Motorola may have told the public, VME is not a generalized bus.
All of the control signals and timings are direct extensions of 68000 
processor.   You might be able to consider VME as a non-Mot product much
like the 68K is no longer a Motorola product.  If you think the VME 
architecture is generalized talk to someone that has tried to put a non-68K
engine on the bus, it is not trivial.
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  tomk@intsc.UUCP  			Tom Kohrs
					Regional Architecture Specialist
		   			Intel - Santa Clara