The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

Versa Module Europa

    (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)