Jack Kister
Jack Kister (born 1951) is an engineer who worked on the TTL model for the original 68000 microprocessor at Motorola.[1][2] He later became manager of the group responsible for doing the development systems for the Motorola processors (called EXORciser). In this capacity, he wrote the original specification for the Versabus which was employed by the Exorcisor systems.
One of the Motorola Applications Engineers from Europe had the idea of putting the Versabus on a Euro sized PCB/connector. This became the Versa Module Europe, also known as VMEbus.[3] Kister is often credited for being the inventor of VMEbus[4] because it became an IEEE standard.[5]
Kister eventually relocated to Silicon Valley with his family where he was the hardware engineering manager at Tolerant systems, the I/O sub-systems manager at Cydrome, the director of engineering at Wyse Technology for Advanced Systems where he was responsible for the Wyse 7000/Wyse 9000 systems and VP Engineering at Diamond Multimedia.[6]
References[edit]
- ↑ Tseng, Vincent (1982). Microprocessor development and development systems. McGraw Hill. p. x. ISBN 978-0070653801.
Jack Kister was awarded a BSEE degree at the University of Nebraska. [...] he has been responsible for the design management of the TEH MC68000 16-bit microcomputer development...
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- ↑ Zhang, Feng (2020). "VPX Architecture". High-speed Serial Buses in Embedded Systems. Singapore: Springer. ISBN 9789811518676.
One of their engineers, Jack Kister, decided to set about creating a standardized bus system for 68000-based systems. The Motorola team brainstormed for days to select the name VERSAbus. Kister was later joined by John Black...
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- ↑ Black, John Arthur (1992). The System engineer's handbook: a guide to building VMEbus and VXIbus systems. Morgan Kaufmann. p. VME-iii. ISBN 978-0-12-102820-6. Search this book on
- ↑ Fahiya, Sk; Reddy, V. Vittal; Rao, N. Nageswara (2013). "Analysis and Testing of VME (Versa Modular European) Bus Cards". International Journal of Computer Applications. 78 (15): 5–12. ISSN 0975-8887.
This type of real time computer based VME bus was designed by the JACK KISTER
- ↑ Alderman, Ray (2011). "VME turns 30". VME and Critical Systems. Vol. 29 no. 3. p. 7. ISSN 1941-3807.
Jack Kister and John Black of Motorola never perceived what would happen when they pinned out the 68000 microprocessor bus on an edge-card connector with a VERSAmodule card format back in 1979.
- ↑ "Diamond Reorganizes Executive Staff and Hires New Vice President of Engineering". PRweb. 4 February 1994. Retrieved December 22, 2010.
Kister, 42, has joined Diamond as vice president of engineering.
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