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Article #21500Re: a silly VME bus question
From: Mike Butts APD x1302
Date: Wed, 31 May 1989 00:57
Date: Wed, 31 May 1989 00:57
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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?)
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Michael Butts, Research Engineer KC7IT 503-626-1302
Mentor Graphics Corp., 8500 SW Creekside Place, Beaverton, OR 97005
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