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ANSI /an'see/

  1. n. [techspeak] The American National Standards Institute. ANSI, along with the International Organization for Standards (ISO), standardized the C programming language (see K&R, Classic C), and promulgates many other important software standards.

  2. n. [techspeak] A terminal may be said to be 'ANSI' if it meets the ANSI X3.64 standard for terminal control. Unfortunately, this standard was both over-complicated and too permissive. It has been retired and replaced by the ECMA-48 standard, which shares both flaws.

  3. n. [BBS jargon] The set of screen-painting codes that most MS-DOS and Amiga computers accept. This comes from the ANSI.SYS device driver that must be loaded on an MS-DOS computer to view such codes. Unfortunately, neither DOS ANSI nor the BBS ANSIs derived from it exactly match the ANSI X3.64 terminal standard. For example, the ESC-[1m code turns on the bold highlight on large machines, but in IBM PC/MS-DOS ANSI, it turns on 'intense' (bright) colors. Also, in BBS-land, the term 'ANSI' is often used to imply that a particular computer uses or can emulate the IBM high-half character set from MS-DOS. Particular use depends on context. Occasionally, the vanilla ASCII character set is used with the color codes (a combination sometimes given the chimerical name ANSCII ), but on BBSs, ANSI and 'IBM characters' tend to go together.

  4. n. [BBS jargon] The American National Standards Institute's (ANSI) Advanced Data Communication Control Procedure (ADCCP) X3.64-1979 or 'ANSI X3.64-1979' for short. To the common BBS user, simply 'ANSI' or 'ANSI-BBS'. A [textmode] medium which consists of the standard IBM PC 256-character set (code page 437), enhanced by 16 foreground colors, 8 background colors, and the ability to control and move the cursor. (source: artpacks.acid.org) from The Artscene Dictionary

  5. Influential art exhibition at San Francisco's 20 GOTO 10 gallery Jan 12-Feb 3 2008, curated by Kevin "acidjazz" Olson and gallery owner Chris Abad, featuring classic historical ANSI art works by ACiD alumni Chris Lewis (aka Lord Jazz) and Jeff Lindsey (aka Somms). Art was exhibited as prints in lightbox transparencies and on dedicated custom displays driven by parallax microcontrollers with SD cards soldered on to them.