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ANSI art en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

ANSI + art. So called because of the use of the ANSI text terminal display standard (ANSI X3.64), from the American National Standards Institute.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A form of letter art that used the extended ASCII character set from the IBM Model 5150 Personal Computer's (IBM PC) Disk Operating System (DOS), and control codes, which allowed for limited color, graphic block characters, limited sound, limited animation.

Coordinates

ASCII art

Deriveds

ANSImation

wikipedia: en:ANSI X3.64 · wikipedia: American National Standards Institute