hardware (VME) A flexible open-ended bus system which makes use of the
Eurocard standard.
VME was introduced in 1981 by
Motorola,
Philips,
Thompson, and Mostek. It was intended to be a flexible environment supporting a variety of computing intensive tasks, and has become a rather popular protocol in the computer industry. It is defined by the
IEEE standard 1014-1987.
(1997-03-10)