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Re: Re: What does VME stand for? (Name dropping time)

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From: mark williams
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1991 21:44
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Re:  The Origin of the name VMEbus

Schlomo Pri-Tal, of Motorola, recently told me that there was NO
significance to the letters VME.  

However, Motorola had a line of boards using 68000s back then which it
called Versabus boards.  Hence one popular tale is that VME stands for

     VERSA MODULE EUROPEAN,

since VME used the DIN connectors on VME, as opposed to edge connectors
with inch dimensions used on VERSAbus.

Perhaps we should let Wayne and Schlomo settle this in a duel  :<)  

Disclamer:  I don't know nuttin, so I cudna sedit.
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Subject: Re: Re: What does VME stand for?  (Name dropping time)
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