Uniscope

Unlike Teletype terminals, the Uniscope minimizes the number of I/O interrupts required by accepting large blocks of data, and uses a high speed proprietary communications interface, using coaxial cable and hardware devices known as multiplexors.

Uniscope was a registered trade mark for a set of Sperry Univac dumb terminal products.

A fairly complex data presentation protocol permitted application programmers to format a screen for any number of business purposes.

A protocol extension permitted programmers to specify color for each field and lines on the borders of each cell (underline, or vertical bars, etc.)

Each character was individually drawn as a series of splines using technology developed for displays in military cockpits.

There were versions that had the various national code sets for different European countries to enable pound signs, and various accented characters, etc.

The color UTS 60 terminal using two Motorola processors arrived on the market in 1984[2] at about the same time as desktop computers with EGA monitors.

Unisys developed the INFOConnect terminal emulators for PCs that included use of the Uniscope protocols in the early 1990s.