'''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"
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code]. Terminal emulators for [Linux] have support for ANSI escape codes
built in.

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