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Originally Posted by knc1
"cvm" is the name of the user who runs the Java virtual machine (a Commercial Virtual Machine - not the freebe JVM Sun/Oracle lets people download).
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That's not what it ever stood for. It originally stood for Compact Virtual Machine, but then it was decided that this would be confusing due to the acronym's similarity with KVM (?!) so it was decreed that the C stood for, uh, itself: the letter C. Because calling a Java virtual machine "C Virtual Machine" is not confusing at all!
Combine this with the SunOS/Solaris version disaster and you must conclude that Sun had a genius for terrible renaming decisions.