(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)