component object model

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component object model - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Component Object Model
  Common Object Model
  
     <programming> (COM) An open software architecture from DEC
     and Microsoft, allowing interoperation between
     ObjectBroker and OLE.  Microsoft evolved COM into DCOM.
  
     On page XV of Box's book in the foreword by Charlie Kindel he
     says, "It is Mark Ryland's fault that some people call COM the
     'Common Object Model.'  He deeply regrets it and apologizes
     profusely."
  
     ["Essential COM", Don Box].
  
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     (1999-06-12)