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From: linimon@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Mark Linimon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: MacWorld (early August) leads to Macnificent rumors :-)
Summary: clarification of term "VME"
Message-ID: <4958@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 28 Jul 88 19:23:04 GMT
References: <8807281150.AA29951@ucbvax.berkeley.edu>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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In article <8807281150.AA29951@ucbvax.berkeley.edu>, SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) writes:
> Taking a Different Bus.
> PC clone manufacturers led by AST Research president Safi
> Qureshey are attempting to agree on an alternative to IBM's
> Micro Channel Architecture (MCA).  The alternate bus could
> be the Nubus standard used in the Macintosh II or an
> adaptation of the VME (IBM mainframe Virtual Memory
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Extension) electrical specifications.  The move away from
  ^^^^^^^^^
> the IBM "standard" is based on dissatisfaction with MCA
> performance as well as the cost and difficulty of licensing
> from "Big Blue." - InfoWorld 27 June

VME may mean that to InfoWorld, but to the 100+ VMEbus
vendors it means something different, and that is the meaning
I think is intended in the information above.  The VMEbus
is a design spec that allows the interconnection of multiple
processors, memories, peripherals, and so forth on a backplane.  It
is a competing technology to Multibus, Nubus, STDbus, and so forth.
VME even has its own non-profit trade group: VITA (10229 N. Scottsdale
Road, Suite E, Scottsdale AZ 85253).

Discussion of various bus-related topics seems to go on over in comp.periphs.

Disclaimer: I work for a VMEbus manufacturer but otherwise have
no connection with VITA.

Mark Linimon
Mizar, Inc.
uucp: sun!texsun!mizarvme!linimon

...now all we need to do is tell InfoWorld :-)