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ANSI art

ANSI art noun: 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.

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Noun

ANSI art (uncountable)

  1. 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.

Origin of ANSI art

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

Words formed from ANSI art

  • ANSImation

Questions about ANSI art

What does ANSI art mean?
ANSI art means 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.
What part of speech is ANSI art?
ANSI art is a noun.

Words near ANSI art in the dictionary

  1. Anshul
  2. Anshuman
  3. Anshun
  4. Anshur
  5. ANSI
  6. ANSI art
  7. ansible
  8. ansibles
  9. Ansichow
  10. ansiform
  11. anslaight

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