The most common serial comms line graphics protocol evolved from the Tektronix 401x storage scope displays, sometimes refered to as the "GS" protocol for the escape sequence it used.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektronix_4010 There are tons of manuals on bitsavers about them. Just about everyone in the graphics terminal business had to support Tek protocol, including the company I worked for (AED). On 9/16/18 8:01 AM, Carlo Pisani via cctalk wrote: > "Tektronix vector > graphics", but I have only found dead links =( >