VESA

V ideo E lectronics S tandards A ssociation that set such standards as the 1992 VL-Bus standards for local buses. A highly critical discussion of the VESA/BIOS Extension/Audio Interfase (VBE/A1) that is not backwards compatible with the Sound Blaster standard appears in New Media, June 1994, p. 18. (See also Sound board , Bus , ISO 9000 , and VL-Bus )