< 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)