However, the full name and the initialism BAL almost immediately attached themselves in popular use to all assembly-language dialects on the System/360 and its descendants. BAL for BPS/360 was introduced with the System/360 in 1964.
Lossy format means that data was lost during conversion from original source, for example WAV to MP3 results in loss of audio data that most people can't hear, because they're â¦ probably have a terrible monitor chain.
When you convert a file from a lossless format to a lossy format â say, ripping an audio CD (a lossless format) to MP3 files (a lossy format) â youâre throwing away some of the data. The MP3 file is so much smaller because much of the original audio data has been lost.