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On Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 01:17:09PM +0100, Paul Ruizendaal wrote:
> 
> Interestingly, Luderer also refers to a 1978 paper by Steve Holmgren (one of the Arpa Unix authors), suggesting ’sockets’ (in today’s parlance) for interproces communication.

Could that simply be bleed over of terminology from the ARPAnet / Internet
usage, in that "socket" is used to refer to protocol end points?

i.e. see these from 1970:

  https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc54
  https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc55
  https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc60

DF