<MichaelRaskin>
Lambda calculus: everything is a lambda term. Unix: everything is a file. Spectrum OS (in its full future glory): everything is a socket, and you do not have an officially recognised need to know words that could describe its other end.
<kuya>
unix just called. your socket is also just a file. :P
<MichaelRaskin>
We all know that the only OS that does handle sockets as files consistently (you know, supporting open() and all that) is pretty far from Single Unix Specification