 3 definitions found
From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:
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, but on BBSs, ANSI and 'IBM characters' tend to go together.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
ANSI
{American National Standards Institute}
From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:
ANSI
American National Standard Institute (org., USA)
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