Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zephyr!tektronix!sequent!mntgfx!mbutts
From: mbutts@mntgfx.mentor.com (Mike Butts @ APD x1302)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: a silly VME bus question
Message-ID: <1989May30.175753.1264@mntgfx.mentor.com>
Date: 31 May 89 00:57:51 GMT
References: <428@sagpd1.UUCP>
Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation, Beaverton Oregon
Lines: 16

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?)

-- 
Michael Butts, Research Engineer       KC7IT           503-626-1302
Mentor Graphics Corp., 8500 SW Creekside Place, Beaverton, OR 97005
...!{sequent,tessi,apollo}!mntgfx!mbutts  OR  mbutts@pdx.MENTOR.COM
Opinions are my own, not necessarily those of Mentor Graphics Corp.