(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)