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Old 04-11-2017, 11:15 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by NullNix View Post
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.
It is the terminology currently used by Oracle for the proprietary, hardware assisted, VM.

But as you point out, that might be an accident;
after all there are only 26 letters to choose from.
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