On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 1:43 PM Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
   
    > Named Piped were definiately a Rand-ism (they were originally called 'Rand Pipes')

Well, _RAND_ called them 'ports':

  https://minnie.tuhs.org//cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=BBN-V6/doc/ipc/ports

Absolutely right... Rand Ports ... I stand corrected.  Ports/Pipes -- same thing ...