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American National Standards Institute. Pronounced like 'antsy'.

http://www.ansi.org

ANSI standards relevant to computers

  1. ASCII is an ANSI standard mapping codes to characters. When referring to BBS era technology, often used to refer to a text mode graphics format. ASCII characters in 16 basic colors and 7 background colors.
  2. Another important standard is for ANSI C, defining standard functions, types, and header files.