> - COM allows you to create objects, find out what interfaces they 
> support, and call the functions in those interfaces. These objects can 
> be provided by a DLL loaded into your program, an EXE running on the 
> same computer, or (hypothetically) a program running on some remote 
> computer. So it's like a system that can DLL procedure calls or RPC 
> calls - and you don't have to care which.

Incidentally, I found out why the registry is called... the registry.

It's where you *register* where the hell the code for all these objects 
is actually stored. Who'd have thought?

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