Versa Module Europa
<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)