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From: lexw@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (Lex Wassenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: a silly VME bus question
Message-ID: <263@wc8.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 1 Jun 89 06:52:49 GMT
References: <428@sagpd1.UUCP> <1989May30.175753.1264@mntgfx.mentor.com>
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In article <1989May30.175753.1264@mntgfx.mentor.com> mbutts@mntgfx.mentor.com (Mike Butts @ APD x1302) writes:
>From article <428@sagpd1.UUCP>, by eprice@sagpd1.UUCP (Eric Price):
>> Being a software engineer (even though my degree reads BSEE) I would
>> like to know what the VME in VME bus stands for. I say it stands for
>> Virtual Memory Extended, one of my co workers says it stands for something
>> else the E being for Europe. Please no flames.
>
>Motorola had a bus called Versabus, which was a predecessor to VME, and
>quite similar electrically, if memory serves me right.  VME applied
>the Versabus' successor on little Eurocard modules, thus Versabus
>Module Eurocard.  (Why not VEM, you ask?)
>

Nope. You're close, but not right. Indeed, Motorola developed in the late
1970's a bus called VERSAbus. The European Microsystems group of Motorola
in Munich, West Germany, proposed the development of a VERSAbus-like product
line based on the Mechanical standard of the Eurocard. The new bus was
called VERSAbus-E, and later renamed to VMEbus. Actually, VME stands for
VERSA Modular Europe bus.

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