(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)