Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!rochester!rit!wingman!dlt
From: dlt@wingman.UUCP (Don Turrell)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: a silly VME bus question
Keywords: stupidity
Message-ID: <9@wingman.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 89 13:41:17 GMT
References: <428@inmos.co.uk> <1542@brwa.inmos.co.uk>
Reply-To: dlt@wingman.UUCP (Don Turrell)
Organization: Performance Technologies, Inc. East Rochester N.Y.
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In article <1542@brwa.inmos.co.uk> davidb@inmos.co.uk (David Boreham) writes:
>What does the VME in VMEbus stand for ?
>
>If you want a laugh try going round BUSCON and asking
>every VMEbus vendor what VMEbus stands for ! I bet not
>one could tell you.

Hey! We take exception to that remark ( :-) )

We (Performance Technologies) have been a BUSCON participant since day one.
We can tell you that VME stands for Versa Module European. We are also a
manufacturer of VMEbus boards as well as various SCSI modules (Small System 
Computer Interface)... (yet another acronym!)


Don Turrell
Performance Technologies, Inc.  East Rochester  New York  USA
(716) 586-6727
dlt@wingman.com

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