ANSI art

English

Etymology

ANSI +‎ art. From letter art on DOS-based computers which required the ansi.sys device driver to be loaded. From being a device driver that implmeneted an ANSI text terminal display standard (ANSI X3.64). From the American National Standards Institute, the body that issued that standard. Named after American National Standards Institute.

Noun

ANSI art (uncountable)

1. (computing, art) 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.

Coordinate terms

• ASCII art

 

Derived terms

• .ANS / .ans
• ANSImation