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From: rnv@motsj1.UUCP (Ron Voss)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: a silly VME bus question
Summary: a disclaimer
Message-ID: <1295@motsj1.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 89 21:07:28 GMT
References: <428@sagpd1.UUCP> <1989May30.175753.1264@mntgfx.mentor.com>
Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division, San Jose Ca.
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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?)

IMPORTANT:  THE FOLLOWING IS MY OPINION ONLY!

My understanding of Motorola's position on this matter is that
VME is NOT an acronym.  I don't think you'll ever find it
published anywhere that VME stands for anything.  I think that in
the beginning of VME, if Mot had tried to push any particular
meaning, no one else would have signed up to the standard.
You can say that someone had some particular meaning in mind.
You can say that. :-)  (S.R., H.G., are you listening?)

-- 
Ron Voss, Systems Engineer
Motorola Inc, Microcomputer Division
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Opinions (and facts?) are my own