Version 2 of ANSI

Updated 2008-02-25 20:25:56 by escargo

American National Standards Institute see: http://www.ansi.org/ . Does standardization of all sorts of things.

One example that many programmers will have encountered is the ASCII character set, which was a huge improvement over the vast number of different manufacturer encodings in use beforehand (of which only IBM's EBCDIC has survived in any meaningful way).

Also significant because, "ANSI escape codes are used to control text formatting and other output options on text terminals" [L1 ]. Terminal emulators for Linux have support for ANSI escape codes built in.


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