(VME) A flexible open-ended bus sYstem which makes use of the Eurocard standard. VME was introduced in 1981 bYMotorola, 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)