From: utzoo!henry
Newsgroups: hacknews
Title: Sanders software 
Article-I.D.: utzoo.2574
Posted: Thu Nov  4 19:54:37 1982
Received: Thu Nov  4 19:54:37 1982

Spr(1), spcancel(1), and spd(8) have arrived.  Similar in most ways
to the existing line-printer stuff, from which they are derived.
Header and trailer pages are in the 16-pitch one-pass font for speed
and compactness.

The device has been renamed /dev/sp and is now protected, to require
all access to be done via spr and spd.  The reason for this is that
spd keeps accounting records.  Charging rates have yet to be set, but
will basically be aimed at recovering the cost of ribbons.