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by breck 1771 days ago
> The DELL Optiplex 386SX will run around 800 to 1200 DLLS

Dumb question (maybe I've been out of Windows world too long) but what does this mean?

2 comments

he he. DLLS is short for DOLLAR$ :)
Ha, ha. I also thought we were talking about Dynamically Loaded Libraries and I couldn't remember a time when Windows would show me how many DLLs I had loaded or stop me with, "Sorry, too many DLLs loaded". :P
Unlike extensions on Macintosh that showed up on the start up screen as they loaded!
What language is that? The only abbreviation I've ever seen is USD (the three non-romance languages I speak a little of use a variation on "dollar" which, by context, is always clearly USD.)
I don't think that's a normal abbreviation. If you Google "DLLS" all the results are about DLLs (and that's obviously not because dollars are an obscure technical term). Maybe you were thinking of USD?
Dynamically Loaded Libraries